While Windows Azure is designed first and foremost to appeal to .Net developers, Microsoft has been adding tools for those who want to work on cloud apps using PHP, Ruby and even -- gasp -- Java.

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It’s been a long time since Microsoft brewed its own Java. But now it’s back, with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, fit and finished for running in the Azure cloud. A couple of weeks ago an anonymous ...

A new "getting started" experience for Java on Azure dev tooling promises to have IntelliJ jockeys up and running with their first deployment within a few minutes. Microsoft's dev team for the Azure ...

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Microsoft and Azul Systems are partnering to allow Java developers on Azure and Azure Stack to build and run production Java applications using Zulu Enterprise, the commercially supported edition of ...

Microsoft and Azul Systems are teaming up to allow Java developers on Azure and Azure Stack to build and run production Java applications using Zulu Enterprise, the commercially supported edition of ...

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As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...