Welcome to the special #MeetAzure edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. It’s been a big week for Windows Azure – we made several announcements over the past two days and hosted a live streaming event with Scott Guthrie yesterday, from San Francisco.  This special edition of the roundup covers all the coverage of this week’s news on our blogs, as well as press and community coverage.  If you missed the live stream, you can watch the recorded version online at meetwindowsazure.com. 

Microsoft Blogs

• Meet the New Windows Azure by @scottgu (posted June 7)
• Now Available: New Services and Enhancements to Windows Azure by Bob Kelly (posted June 7)
• Announcing New Windows Azure Services to Deliver “Hybrid Cloud” by Bill Laing (posted June 6)
• Announcing the June 2012 Release of Windows Azure SDK for .NET – Now with Support for Visual Studio 2012, by Jason Zander, Developer Tools Blog (posted June 7)
• Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Azure SDK for .NET by S. Somasegar, Developer Tools Blog (posted June 7)
• A New Milestone for Openness on Windows Azure by Gianugo Rabellino, Port 25 Blog (posted June 7)
• Key Partners Open Up the Cloud with Windows Azure by James Utzschneider, Openness@Microsoft Blog (posted June 8)
• Building and Deploying Windows Azure Web Sites using Git and GitHub for Windows by @shijucv (posted June 8)
• 10 Things about Windows Azure Web Sites by @ntotten (posted June 7)
• Windows Azure – No Kidding by @shanselman (posted June 7)
• Running Redis on a CentOS Linux VM in Windows Azure by @tomconte (posted June 8)

Community Posts

• New (Windows) Azure portal is ALL HTML 5! by @paras_doshi (posted June 7)
• Official Ubuntu Images Now Available on Windows Azure by Paul Oh, Canonical Blog (posted June 7)
• Deploy to Windows Azure Web Sites! by Matt Pardee, Cloud9 IDE Blog (posted June 7)
• Opscode Announces Interoperability with Windows Azure (posted June 6)
• RightScale Supports Windows Azure 2.0: Where IaaS Meets PaaS by Raphael Simon, RightScale Blog (posted June 6)

 Press Coverage

• CIOs Rejoice: Window Azure Supports Linux by Clint Boulton, Wall Street Journal (posted June 7)
• Windows Azure Re-imagined: Microsoft’s Fit for The Cloud by Andrew Brust, ZDNet (posted June 7)
• Microsoft broadens (Windows) Azure’s reach by marrying IaaS and PaaS by Ted Samson, InfoWorld (posted June 7)
• Microsoft Delivers New Windows Azure SDK for .NET by Darryl K. Taft, eWeek (posted June 8)
• Microsoft paints (Windows) Azure with Open Source Brush by Barb Darrow, GigaOM (posted June 7)
• Microsoft to Run Linux on (Windows) Azure by Joab Jackson, PC World (posted June 6)

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Have a great weekend!

Himanshu