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Microsoft has its own cloud strategy, designed in part to protect its core business of operating systems and Office applications against competition from other cloud providers, such as Google Apps.

The following paragraphs summarize several of Microsoft’s cloud offerings:

 Microsoft Office 365: A cloud-based version of Microsoft Office. According to Microsoft’s website, Office 365 provides “anywhere access to cloud-based email, web conferencing, file sharing, and Office Web Apps at a low predictable monthly cost.” For more information, check out www.office365.com.

 Windows Azure: A PaaS offering that lets you build websites, deploy virtual machines that run Windows Server or Linux, or access cloud versions of server applications such as SQL Server.For more information about Azure, refer to Book 5, Chapter 3.