<!-- mobian-agent-page publisher="dailydev" canonical="https://daily.dev/posts/ready-for-a-windows-azure-roadtrip--3drzjlcbz" -->

---
title: Ready for a Windows Azure roadtrip? | daily.dev
description: A new community blog, azure-roadtrip.be, is launching with contributions from three developers covering PHP, Java, and .NET perspectives on Windows Azure. The...
canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ready-for-a-windows-azure-roadtrip--3drzjlcbz
twitter:card: summary_large_image
twitter:site: @dailydotdev
og:type: website
og:site_name: daily.dev
og:title: Ready for a Windows Azure roadtrip? | daily.dev
og:description: A new community blog, azure-roadtrip.be, is launching with contributions from three developers covering PHP, Java, and .NET perspectives on Windows Azure. The...
og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ready-for-a-windows-azure-roadtrip--3drzjlcbz
og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3DrzjlCbz.png
og:image:alt: Ready for a Windows Azure roadtrip?
og:image:width: 1200
og:image:height: 630
og:locale: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Ready for a Windows Azure roadtrip?

**[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A new community blog, azure-roadtrip.be, is launching with contributions from three developers covering PHP, Java, and .NET perspectives on Windows Azure. The kickoff post is a beginner-level introduction explaining what Windows Azure is and why .NET developers might use it, describing its pay-per-use, self-service cloud model.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2012-05-30-ready-for-a-windows-azure-roadtrip>

## Similar posts on daily.dev

- [Microsoft Dev Blogs: Code, News, and Insights for Developers](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-dev-blogs-code-news-and-insights-for-developers-hrmzg8zxg) · DevBlogs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments
- [The .NET Tools Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/the-net-tools-blog-9cklwvlfg) · JetBrains · 7 upvotes · 0 comments

---

Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net)

[View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ready-for-a-windows-azure-roadtrip--3drzjlcbz)

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Ready for a Windows Azure roadtrip?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ready-for-a-windows-azure-roadtrip--3drzjlcbz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ready-for-a-windows-azure-roadtrip--3drzjlcbz"},"datePublished":"2026-10-04T13:05:10.476Z","dateModified":"2026-10-04T13:06:07.703Z","description":"A new community blog, azure-roadtrip.be, is launching with contributions from three developers covering PHP, Java, and .NET perspectives on Windows Azure. The...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b2a93b4af60dac736aae2190df75195a?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b2a93b4af60dac736aae2190df75195a?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Maarten Balliauw","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Maarten Balliauw","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--rOTg3VYO--/f_auto,q_auto/v1791119043/logos/maartenballiauw?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ready-for-a-windows-azure-roadtrip--3drzjlcbz","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"cloud,.net","timeRequired":"PT2M"}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Maarten Balliauw","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Ready for a Windows Azure roadtrip?"}]}
```

