Anyone familiar with "azurewebsites.net"? Malware related?

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I might need some help here...

Have you heard any rumblings about something called azurewebsites.net?

I just finished upgrading a friend's computer to Windows 7 (THEY'D BEEN RUNNING XP!! !) and when I opened IE, the first page that came up was that website, with a Microsoft logo, offering a new anti-virus program. I didn't touch a thing on the browser, and just shut the computer down.

Using my own machine, I did some searches and found references to MS using the word "Azure" in some project they've got going, but nothing about that specific URL.

Any idea if my friend's machine somehow have got malware on it, or might this be something Microsoft is actually doing?

Does it look like this?

If so, that is a very convincing phish.
Azure is a service offered by Microsoft for hosting your own websites, but Microsoft themselves would never usually offer products on a subdomain of azurewebsites.net. And they would never refer to their own products as something as bland as 'free antivirus'.
Phishing and malware websites hosted on Azure are not unheard of. I'd advise your friend give the computer a scan with a good antivirus software, and clear all browser data to rid any infection.