Microsoft has launched one more Azure CTP for Developer Conference, it seems little bit confusing for users, which feature comes with which CTPs (:
More important news is Microsoft going to charge you after February 1. It’s better to you get practice more as it’s still free (: here is for more information.

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/10/29/windows-azure-platform-launch-update.aspx

From the begining Microsoft wants to put Azure to be supported not only for .Net also other platforms at first place. Here is the new big step from Microsoft; MS just published new tools for Eclipse, Java and PHP. Here is the link for more.

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/10/28/new-eclipse-php-and-java-tools-for-windows-azure.aspx