There's not a lot of information on what exactly this will be (relational db? bigtableish? will it even be SQL Server behind the scenes?) other than users can host an unlimited amount of data on SSDS. My guess is it's not relational and not SQL Server, but rather more like BigTable/SimpleDB since that appears to be the new school way of massively scaling your data like how the big green giant Google does it.
They do have some interesting features that take the edge over SimpleDB such as full-text search and a LINQ based query language.
You can get your name on the beta list here.
Why is it that when Microsoft does something like this, it's just not quite as exciting as when a different company does it? If Google announced something like this instead of Microsoft, I would be so much more excited. Oh well, at least it's good to see some competition cropping up.
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