Microsoft has launched Windows Azure, the previously unofficially named “Windows Cloud” OS. It is a cloud services operating system that acts as the development, Web hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform.

Being a bear of very little brains, I had to lookup the meaning of the word Azure one of the meaning is the blue color of the clear sky which I guess is what Microsoft are thinking, but did you also know that:

• In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called “colours”. In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else marked with either az. or b. as an abbreviation. Blue means loyalty and truth.
  
• “Azure” is a 1937 song composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Irving Mills.
  
• Azure is a blue color on the HSV color wheel at 210 degrees. It is the hue that is halfway between blue and cyan. Its complementary color is orange.
  
• Azure, subtitled Ideas for the Jewish Nation, is the journal of the Shalem Center, an academic institute in Jerusalem. The magazine is published quarterly in English and in Hebrew; the Hebrew edition is Israel’s leading journal of public thought.
  
• The Azure is an under-construction 31-story modernist residential tower located at McKinnon and Wolf Streets in the International Center neighborhood of Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas (USA).
  

But could it be that Microsoft Azure is really a Jazz song sung by a bunch of fellows from Jerusalem on top of a tall building on a clear day?

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