Scott Arendt (9/16/2013)
If you do your development in an environment where you own the hardware, software and infrastructure, are you really doing your development "in the cloud"? That used to be called a network. I am assuming that Microsoft is not intending to utilize cloud services from Amazon or Google, but rather use their own services. To me, that is a stretch of the term cloud.They would however be uwing the same tools that are available to their customers.
I guess, but they're using the same tools/infrastructure that they offer to the public. The cost is lower, but I'm not sure the way the developers work, or the responses they get, are going to be off from what we might get. In that sense, I'd think they are using a "cloud".