Apple's iCloud Runs On Microsoft Azure

Front page first-timer ge7 writes "Apple's recently announced cloud storage and cloud service platform, iCloud, runs on their main competitor Microsoft's Azure platform and Amazon services. According to The Reg's sources, 'Microsoft insiders see the iCloud deal as a validation of Azure. iCloud puts Azure into a different league, given the brand love for Apple and the Apple management's fanatical attitude to perfection. It is a "huge consumer brand, a great opportunity to get Azure under a very visible workload." ... Apple has had a recent unpleasant experience in providing online services: in a famous memo, Steve Jobs admitted his company had "more to learn about internet services" following the outages and failures of his precursor to iCloud for email, contacts, calendar, photos and other files on MobileMe.'"

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Re:Microsoft are "trucks"

[PopeRatzo]

It's a giant public slap in the face to Microsot that know one else gets! Be our server slaves, stay in the closet, and let us (Apple) take care of the rest.

This is what it looks like to be in the end stages of being an Apple fanboy. You actually believe it's a "slap in the face" to Microsoft for Apple to run a portion of their business on an MS product. No awareness at all that Apple has to pay Microsoft for the privilege. No awareness that by Apple choosing a Microsoft product, they are saying tacitly that the Microsoft product is the best in its category.

Unless you are willing to take the next step and say that Apple is purposely running a portion of their business on an inferior product just so that they can say "Look! We have shamed Microsoft by giving them money for their obviously inferior product! How ignoble they are!"

Being Apple they would almost certainly add, "Now someone bugger me, with dispatch!"