Microsoft made a statement at TechEd 2012 conference in Orlando. It’s now the Era of the Cloud Operating System. What this means? Let’s check out!

Today, Microsoft’s TechEd 2012 conference in Orlando was in its halfway. The opening keynote held by Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business Group president Satya Nadella a couple of days ago started a little storm within (social) media. Every tweet, blog and news article shouted out loud that it’s the Era of the Cloud O(perating) S(ystem)!

But there were muscles behind this statement. Naturally the upcoming Windows Server 2012 had maybe the most attention with Windows 8, but there was more to it. Windows Intune, Microsoft’s cloud based workstation management service, had its next release, System Center 2012 product line had second CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Service Pack 1 with Windows Server 2012 multitenant support, and Windows Azure got new features such as Azure Active Directory. I wrote an article about new Azure Active Directory a couple of weeks ago.

I’m going to write an article about new Windows Azure features and what the Era of the Cloud OS really means in near future. Stay (in)tuned.