Windows Azure supports node.js

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/12/windows-azure-adds-nodejs-supp.php
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/12/16/node-js-in-windows-azure-to-the-cloud-and-beyond.aspx

Node.js in Windows Azure, To the Cloud and Beyond!

Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform as a service (PaaS), now supports Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript framework.
That is newsworthy because Node.js allows web developers who use JavaScript on the client side to apply their programming know-how to build fast server-based web applications.
The news, which had been telegraphed a few months ago, is part of an overall Windows Azure update announced Monday. It’s also part of Microsoft’s push to make Windows Azure attractive to programmers outside its existing .NET installed base.

“We said from the beginning that we wanted Azure to be the best place for .NET developers and the best place for non-.NET developers,” said Doug Hauger, GM for Windows Azure.
Azure has won good reviews for its scale and support of multiple languages, but many developers, even in the .NET world, deploy their apps on other cloud infrastructure. And, support for multiple languages has become table stakes for PaaS providers from Salesforce.com’s Heroku to VMware’s Cloud Foundry.
As part of this update, Microsoft also brings promised support for the Hadoop big data framework to a limited number of Azure users, Hauger said in an interview. Interested customers must submit a short form to be admitted to the limited preview, but access will be broadened over time, Hauger said.
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http://www.windowsazure.com/en-u ... ls/getting-started/

Developing for Windows Azure is easy when using the available tools. This guide assumes you have no prior experience using Windows Azure. In less than 45 minutes, you will have an application that uses multiple Windows Azure resources up and running in the cloud.

You will learn:
•How to create a new Windows Azure Node.js application using the Windows PowerShell tools.
•How to create a web application using Node and the Windows Azure Libraries for Node.js.
•How to use NPM to install 3rd party packages.
•How to use the Windows Azure Node SDK to access Windows Azure table storage.
•How to run your Node application locally using the Windows Azure compute emulator
•How to publish and re-publish your application to Windows Azure.

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Hosted JavaScript certainly was in Microsoft's original plans, but JavaScript that runs as a host, was not. For a company that has historically been incapable of turning on a dime, though, it's executing a pretty impressive course change with Azure. Last June, the company helped the Joyent open source team to port its Node.js stand-alone JavaScript server to Windows. And yesterday, Microsoft announced it has completed its addition of Node.js support to Azure, meaning that any developer can launch a server-based JavaScript app from Microsoft's cloud in minutes.


Though Azure has its own, "wizard-like" way of deploying apps that's more familiar to long-time Windows developers, that's a new dance entirely for folks in the open source realm. So yesterday, Microsoft published a set tutorials featuring two methods to deploy a Node.js application in Azure, the second of which features the tools and frameworks with which Node.js devs are already familiar, including Express.