Microsoft Releases next Hosting Platform - v4.0

The long awaited release was just announced. Also includes:

Windows-based Hosting for Applications 1.0!

The Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting for Applications enables independent software vendors (ISVs) and application-hosting service providers to quickly and effectively deploy applications in a hosted environment for software as a service.

More here in the TechNet Site:

SADA should be taking this on shortly. We are pretty excited about it.