subject: Windows Phone 7 U.S. launch and more Microsoft news from around the Web [print this page] Microsoft may have another Azure prize-cut plan up its sleeve: On the heels of introducing the new "Extra Small Instance" pricing for entry-level Windows Azure developers, Microsoft may be readying another low-end pricing option, as cloud blogger Roger Jennings noted this week. Microsoft is surveying Azure users regarding their interest in a pay-per-use/consumption pricing model something that would give Microsoft more leverage against Google with its Google App Engine platform-as-a-service offering. Extra Small instance offer gucci handbagsdoesn't start until January 7, 2011 and requires participants to be Microsoft partners, Jennings said. But so far, there's no start date, or even guarantee, that Microsoft will end up fielding pay-per-use Azure pricing.
Windows Phone 7 U.S. launch and more Microsoft news from around the Web
