Windows Azure

Looks like Microsoft is to release "Windows Azure", a new cloud based platform. Looks like you buy it, then all your data is stored somewhere in the deep dark underbelly of the MS network. I can almost hear the tinfoil hats rustling... 

Apart from all the obvious privacy concerns, I think that if Microsoft implement this well it could just work. Then again, everyone says that before a big MS release :P

Full article here:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/27/Microsoft-launches-Windows-Azure-for-the-cloud_1.html