2009 was a momentous and turbulent year in Microsoft's history. It made its entrance into cloud computing, and broke convention by donating source code to Linux. Long-term platform efforts came to fruition, and it aggressively accelerated Silverlight development.
Looking beyond the traditional Windows client/server paradigm, Microsoft rolled out an early version of its Windows Azure Platform. The platform consists of the Windows Azure operating system, as well as a range of services, including a relational database called SQL Azure, and AppFabric, which connects on-premise applications to the cloud.
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