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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. Cloud Backup and Single Sign-In Services by adisakp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The are using Azure to provide cloud backup (and Azure active directory syncing) and Single Sign-In Services. It's not so much making Azure hard to avoid but actually providing useful utility near seamlessly in Azure.

  2. Re:WTF is Azure? by icebike · · Score: 4, Insightful

    same here, i have not used microsoft since windows 2000 pro, and never bought any Apple products, if you seen the beat up old 686 i use you would laugh, but it keeps chugging along on Linux just fine

    Then clearly this story is not for you.
    Move on. No need to weigh in with yet another "me neither" post.

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