MICROSOFT: Details subscriber growth in the Cloud

Microsoft Azure platform cloud computing (cloud computing) is adding at least 120,000 new customers per month; which are business customers and developers said a company executive said Thursday.

More than four million developers are also registered for use developer tools Microsoft said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Cloud in a group of developers conference in San Francisco. In January, Microsoft said it had 3.8 million registered developers.

Microsoft focuses on business services and service platform in the Azure cloud which is a major competitor Amazon.com AWS. Both companies have huge banks of servers running services and software for customers seeking greater flexibility, lower costs and reliability.

Microsoft Windows 10 reaches 270 + million users

The latest version of the Windows operating system Microsoft has 270 million active users eight months after its launch, the company world's largest software said Wednesday.

The number announced by the executive Terry Myerson at an annual meeting of Microsoft for developers in San Francisco, represents a solid start for Windows 10 after the lukewarm reaction of its predecessor, Windows 8. Obtaining a Windows strategy with proposed plans from Microsoft to stay relevant in a mobile world centered on rivals such as Amazon.com, Apple and Google, which have more influence with many consumers and developers.

One reason for the rapid adoption is that Windows 10, released in July, is free for individual consumers who download during its first year. Enterprise customers must pay for Windows 10. An update anniversary will be released this summer will also be free for users already running Windows 10, Myerson said Wednesday.

The gift is an admission by Microsoft that some individuals are willing to pay for the software, and represents a shift to a strategy adopted by most new technology companies attract as many users as possible.

Myerson said before launch that was targeting 1 billion devices with Windows 10 within a few years.