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Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure

Posted by timothy on from the psst-that-shade-of-blue-is-following-you dept.

itwbennett writes "Earlier this week, Microsoft rolled out a handful of hybrid cloud services that make it easy for businesses to start using Azure in a small way. What struck blogger Nancy Gohring about the announcement was 'how deeply Microsoft is integrating Azure into other products,' with the intention of moving long-time customers onto Azure in ways that are hardly perceptible to them."

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  1. Bing by Frankie70 · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://letmebingthatforyou.com/?q=azure

    1. Re:Bing by QilessQi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Very informative, thanks... but what's "bing"?

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    2. Re:Bing by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

      Duh... it's what EVERYONE uses.... Don't you watch Hawaii Five-0?

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  2. Re:WTF is Azure? by Scarletdown · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's Microsoft's implementation of MobileMe, only it doesn't work as well.

    You probably should have included a link to the Wikipedia entry on MobileMe.

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  3. Confirmed by Azure+Flash · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can confirm that I am now much more difficult to avoid.