Here’s something you won’t be reading in Apple’s iCloud promotional material; the cloud service relies on products from Microsoft and Amazon. In fact, for the time being anyway, it looks like Apple isn’t even using its North Carolina data center to backup data, according to ZDNet.

Microsoft is making it easier for iOS developers to write apps for Apple’s mobile platform that also work with Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. Accordingly, the company has released a new toolkit, which will also be made available for Android developers soon. What's this all about?