Microsoft Office 2007 Activation Microsoft reveals

In November 2009, Microsoft introduced its intentions to add a content-delivery network (CDN) capability to its Windows Azure cloud providing. At the finish of May possibly,Office Enterprise 2007 Key, the corporation introduced pricing plans for this performance.The Azure CDN extends the storage piece of the Windows Azure cloud working system, permitting developers to provide high-bandwidth content material more quickly and effectively by putting delivery points nearer to customers. Final 12 months,Microsoft Office 2007 Activation, the Softies mentioned they'd 18 Azure CDN locations. (They're up to 19 now).Throughout the beta period of time for Windows Azure CDN, there was no use charge. But starting on June 30, there is going to be. From a Might 28 blog post on the Windows Azure group blog:“The following three billing meters and rates will apply for the CDN:o$0.15 per GB for data transfers from European and North American locations
o$0.20 per GB for data transfers from other locations
o$0.01 per 10,Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key,000 transactions”At least one commentator on that blog post seemed to consider Microsoft;s pricing in line with that of its competitors, like Amazon;s CloudFront and SimpleCDN;s CDN offering.According to Microsoft, the firm is using the Windows Azure CDN itself to provide Windows Update,Office 2007 Standard, Zune videos and Bing Maps.A related aside: Microsoft has been debating internally for years how best to approach the edge-network/CDN problem. I ran a ThinkWeek paper from 2006 on my Microsoft 2.0 book blog that shows the various ways the Softies considered addressing the issue. An interesting stat from that paper:“CDN services are not inexpensive; Microsoft spent about $40 million on CDN services in FY06. Projections of future growth (based on expected growth in the number of properties,Office Pro Plus 2007 Product Key, amount of traffic, and usage of CDN services) show this growing to far more than $130 million in FY11.”Guess building out its own CDN capability ended up being cheaper than continuing to buy CDN services….