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Wanna learn about the future of software + services well wait no longer Windows Azure is here and below are some great links for you to learn all about the movement! Thanks to Danny Garber for putting this great list of links together.

Blogs

Articles

Visual Studio development

Screencast of how to use azure tools
https://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/10/28/video-walkthrough-a-quick-lap-around-windows-azure-tools-for-microsoft-visual-studio.aspx

Quick lap around VS2008 azure tools (very nice)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203059.aspx

Service project vs. Role project
https://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/10/27/cloud-service-project-vs-role-project.aspx

Development fabric & storage integration
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203061.aspx

Deployment
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203057.aspx

Azure training kit
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en

Degugging storage
https://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/11/01/how-to-diagnose-and-fix-windows-azure-storage-service-issues.aspx

Integrating LiveID/AD into Azure projects
https://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/11/12/432.aspx

New role templates

Enabling Windows live tools in Visual studio
https://blogs.msdn.com/vikasahuja/archive/2008/10/31/windows-live-tools-november-2008-ctp-enabled-for-windows-azure.aspx

F# worker role
https://blogs.msdn.com/gusperez/archive/2008/10/31/f-worker-role-type-available-now-too.aspx

Azure

Azure management tools
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AzureManagementTools

Live services poster
https://dev.live.com/liveframework/livefxposter.pdf

Whitepapers

Azure services platform
https://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/3/e43bb484-3b52-4fa8-a9f9-ec60a32954bc/Azure_Services_Platform.docx

Azure blobs
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131258

Azure Tables
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131257