Windows Azure, cloud computing/hosting platform has been announced on the recent PDC 2008. Now as the dust settled I decided to give it a try. For the moment it is still available as a CTP – Community Technology Preview, so if you like you can test its functionality and deploy applications into ’the cloud’. At this time the pricing for the paid version of this service has not been determined but as Microsoft promises it will be competitive with the pioneers of cloud based storage, Amazon’s Web Services. So, lets get started with going trough the process of deploying a simple Hello World (or Hello Cloud) application, in this case made with ASP.NET (as it is possible to write your apps in Java in Ruby also)