The Interoperability Team at Microsoft announced today that the production-ready 3.0 version of the Windows Azure SDK is now available. You can read about the details of the release here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2011/05/26/new-sdk-shows-how-to-leverage-the-scalability-of-windows-azure-with-php.aspx , but I wanted to share what I consider the highlights of the release in this post. First, this release has a new Service Management API that makes it easy to scale PHP applications in Windows Azure. To showcase this API, the Interop team built and deployed an application called “Deal of the Day”, which allows you to actually win stuff..you can play here: http://dealoftheday.cloudapp.net/ (U.S. only). But, the Read More...

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