Microsoft to open-source cloud framework behind Halo 4 services

Microsoft plans to open-source the framework that helps developers of cloud services like those behind the popular Halo 4 game.Building cloud services for millions of users means connecting and coordinating thousands of servers, and handling tasks and information across all of them. Project Orleans is a framework built by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research using .NET, designed so developers who aren’t distributed systems experts can build cloud services that scale to cope wit