Windows Azure Platform Offer Changes

We also announced several offer changes today, including:

• The extension of the expiration date and increases to the amount of free
  storage, storage transactions and data transfers in the Windows Azure
  Introductory Special offer. This promotional offer now includes 750 hours of
  extra-small instances and 25 hours of small instances of the Windows Azure
  service, 20GB of storage, 50K of storage transactions, and 40GB of data
  transfers provided each month at no charge until September 30, 2011. More
  information can be found here.
  • An existing customer who signed up for the original Windows Azure
    Introductory Special offer will get a free upgrade as of today. An existing
    customer who signed up for a different offer (other than the Windows Azure
    Introductory Special) would need to sign up for the updated Windows Azure
    Introductory Special Offer separately.
• MSDN Ultimate and Premium subscribers will benefit from increased compute,
  storage and bandwidth benefits for Windows Azure. More information can be found
  here.
• The Cloud Essentials Pack for Microsoft partners now includes 750 hours of
  extra-small instances and 25 hours of small instances of the Windows Azure
  service, 20GB of storage and 50GB of data transfers provided each month at no
  charge. In addition, the Cloud Essentials Pack also contains other Microsoft
  cloud services including SQL Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, Microsoft Office
  365, Windows Intune and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. More information can be
  found here.

Read carefully: Some important, good changes to the Introductory Special offer, the MDSN subscribers benefits, and the Cloud Essential Pack offer!