Microsoft has its Windows Azure cloud platform of new functionality provided which in particular is aimed at developers of mobile applications. So is the so-called notification hub is now also compatible with Android devices. Also version control via Git is now possible.
Scott Guthrie, vice-president of Microsoft’s developer division, describes in a blogposting the new functionality that Windows Azure is added. For example, the notification hub can now be used to push notifications to Android smartphones and tablets to send. Until recently it was only available for the iOS and Windows Phone operating systems.
Windows Azure is now also compatible with Git Source Control, a version control system that many developers use. The Git environment on Windows Azure can be used with local development tools on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Developers can also get started with home-made apis on Windows Azure. These so-called custom apis over http are accessed and serve currently in Node.js to be written. Microsoft wants to eventually also support for custom apis .JUST as possible make. In an attempt to more developers of mobile applications to win, offers Microsoft Azure users a year of free access to a 20MB sql database.
