Microsoft Reveals Cloud Computing System, Azure, EBay Partnership

Microsoft's Partner Conference for 2010 is just getting underway, and already some big news is coming out of the event: MS is officially revealing its Azure cloud computing platform, and noting big first-run customers like eBay and Dell will be using it. 

We all know that cloud computing is one of the next big things in computing--it'll transform how we use everything from desktop to media PCs to smartphones, and it's been enabled by ubiquitous broadband and 3G wireless connectivity. MS knows...