Last week at the Microsoft Windows BUILD event, a number of announcements in relation to Windows Azure were made.These announcements included the following, the release of the Azure toolkit for Windows 8 , availability for Bing service APIs (including translation) internationally, a new Azure SDK , updates to Azure management capability and much more. Here is a list of some of the key announcements: International availability of Marketplace for Azure: The Windows Azure Marketplace will soon be available in 25 new countries, including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore. Users in those regions will be able to purchase data and applications for Azure, app store-style.