Windows Azure: New Hadoop service + HTML5/JS (CORS), PhoneGap, Mercurial and Dropbox support

by bill-s, 2013-03-23T02:50:27.000Z

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: HTML5/JS (CORS) Client + PhoneGap + Windows Phone 7.5 + .NET Portable Library support
Web Sites: Mercurial Source Control + Dropbox Deployment support
HDInsight: New service that enables you to easily deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure
All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services are still in preview).