Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure

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."

Comments

Re:What is old is new

[recoiledsnake]

Does iCloud let you provision a Linux VM server in minutes?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/550abded8a10_CEC4/image_17.png

Perhaps you're thinking of Skydrive.

Re:Trainwreck waiting to happen

[Tough Love]

Don't kid yourself, TradElect was a poster child for Microsoft's server and tools strategy. The project was swarming with Microsoft engineers. But you don't have to believe me, the financial industry rightly perceived Accenture as Microsoft's sock puppet.

Actually, this was an all too rare case of the industry dumping the blame where it belonged: squarely in Microsoft's lap. Not that Accenture deserves any praise mind you.

What makes this whole story especially sweet is the way Microsoft crowed about its LSE win. Not surprisingly, Microsoft pulled down http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/default.mspx long ago, but the net remembers it.

Since that fiasco, Microsoft's presence in financial platforms immediately dropped to zero. We can be thankful for that, and it demonstrates clearly where the industry thinks the blame lies.