NodeJS offers a server side JavaScript programming model ideal for building highly scalable and performant network applications whether on premise or in the cloud. It allows you to write code that is uses non-blocking IO thus achieving greater scale. It is also small and lightweight. It has a very rich ecosystem of modules like express and socket.io which developers can pull in using the awesome node package manager otherwise known as npm. Microsoft has partnered with Joyent to port Node and NPM to Windows.
Microsoft's nodeJS developer center is located here. Microsoft have also released the Windows Azure SDK for NodeJS under the Apache 2 license and open sourced it on GitHub. The new SDK makes it easy for developers to build, deploy and manage Node applications hosted in Windows Azure using a set of new PowerShell cmdlets.
Microsoft's npm package contains Node APIS allowing you to use Windows Azure Storage Queues, Tables and Blob storage from whether you are running in Windows Azure or not.
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