Microsoft's Azure has two main offerings, called Windows Server and Windows Cloud. The former is a collection of web-based services such as diagnostics, mail, calendar, collaboration, ID space management, client management tools and VDI that run on Microsoft technologies and the latter a cluster of multiple clouds based on the technology of Google. Microsoft's cloud computing stack for Windows Server consists of two large Windows-based servers running on Microsoft's OS. On the other hand, the Google platform uses its own operating system, ChromeOS, and several other smaller OSes based on Linux, Solaris, and BSD.
Google's infrastructure setup for its cloud services runs on its own cloud platform - Google Compute Engine. The company has several large data centers that serve as data centers for the company and the same can be said about the Windows Server virtual machines. These companies have their own advantages and disadvantages to each and everything they do. Though Google's services have attracted some heavyweights in the IT industry, like IBM and Amazon, who have put up large infrastructures to support their cloud computing services, it still lags behind in the area of data centers.
Microsoft's Azure has several advantages over its competitors. Among these advantages are its grid networks. It also claims to have the best technologies. Microsoft's cloud computing service offers great value added services to its users like no other service platform can. Though Microsoft has recently claimed victory over Amazon in the smartphone market, it has been unable to keep up with its rising competitor who has recently announced plans to bring its very own mobile computing platform to the market - Windows Mobile.
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