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Within a year, 90% of Microsoft employees will be working on cloud-related projects (Download Squad)

Mar 14th 2010 4:38PM Cloud computing is a broad term, the most accepted definition about cloud computing is the NIST definition (http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/cloud-def-v15.doc)
Azure is one part of Microsoft cloud strategy formerly called S+S strategy. In this strategy a broad set of products (and future projects) are included, like Azure, SQL Azure ,BPOS,Office 2010 (have a look to Office Web Apps)
S+S combines the strengthens of two worlds, the software installed on every device (and on computers) and software services available from Internet, so Microsoft will also support and strive traditional software.