Microsoft turns 50. Here are 18 of its biggest moments

Microsoft introduced Azure at a conference in October 2008, marking the company’s first entry into the cloud computing market.

At the time of it’s introduction, the program was referred to under the codename “Project Red Dog.” It was officially launched later in 2010 as Windows Azure, marketed as the internet version of the company’s largely successful Windows operating system, before being renamed to Microsoft Azure in 2014.

Azure has since become a core Microsoft service, and has further been infused with artificial intelligence capabilities.