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I’ve been pretty anti-microsoft for a while because it seems that they always miss the boat.  However, they do have LOTS of cash (40+ billion) and a huge development force.  Becauase of this i was surprised they didn’t get more press for the news they spit out last week.  Four big things appeared out of last week’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC):

1. They announced Azure, a set of cloud services that competes with Amazon’s S3.  Another big player will really solidify the category.
2. They showed off Windows 7 which is getting high good hype from the blogosphere.
3. They showed off new Web-based versions of Microsoft Office that were really nice.  They are really late here but if they can get up to parity with Zoho they could dominate
4. They also released new Mac and Mobile versions of Mesh and further explained how that’ll enable new kinds of Internet-connected apps to be built.

All in all it was a HUGE week for Microsoft. I just don’t know why nobody noticed.  It is because we’re all Mac fanboys and want them to fail (I know i do)?  What do you think?

Related articles:

• every video of the PDC is here if you’re interested.
• Microsoft extends services via web
• SlideRocket AIR Presentation Application Moves into Public Beta
• Microsoft to Take Office to the Web (Now With Editing!)