In case some of you missed it, Mary-Jo Foley over on “All About Microsoft” has published a series of articles this week about the “Red Dog” team (our codename before we became Windows Azure).  These articles aren’t about the product, but rather about the team that builds it.  If you’ve ever been curious about the people who are building Windows Azure and how it all got started, I highly recommend this series of articles.  Here are the links:

• Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks?
• How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratch
• Microsoft’s Cloud OS Dream Team: Who’s Who
• Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave Cutler
• Azure: One big, happy platform?
• Red Dog- Ray Ozzie casts a long shadow