Microsoft showed the creation of a program running Windows Azure and Glassfish Server in the cloud. Windows Azure has eclipse support, therefor it’s really easy to publish into the cloud.
But didn’t see anything special other componies don’t support. In the end all cloud providers try to sell their datacenter capabilities which originally were planed to be used for other services (ie Bing, Google Search, Amazon store).
One thing to mention, the microsoft guy showed some sort of network authentication. They said that this is a security layer so that in conclusion the developer don’t has to care for his appliacation security. I think this is a really wrong approach I would never give the security in other hands, and never directly in the hands of the microsoft cloud. In my opinion this is more network authentication which can be used in addition to programmtic security (equal to radius).
Link to the slides will be available asap.