<A target="_blank" href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Simplifies-Development-on-Windows-Azure-Cloud-295316/?kc=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RSS%2Ftech+%28eWEEK+Technology+News%29">Microsoft is making a limited-time offer to developers; a free trial of the Windows Azure platform</A>. The offer is available from February 22 through June 30, 2011 and includes 750 hours of Windows Azure Extra Small Compute instance use.