With only a couple of examples shown Monday of programs running on Windows Azure, I started to wonder just how far along things are with the cloud OS. In an interview, corporate VP Amitabh Srivastava tried to set me straight.

“Windows Azure is at an early stage,” he said, “It is real, but it is at an early stage.” In addition to the BlueHoo application shown on stage, Windows Azure was used to build Microsoft's Live Mesh and is also being used to build the next generation of Live Meeting.

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