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    The reality is a Web services platform like Azure is as broad in its target as Windows or Windows server is, so it really ultimately targets everybody ... The kind of questions you have to ask in some sense is, 'Where are you targeting first?' We really are going after a couple of major audiences in the early days. Full Article at RedmondMag.com
    The reality is a Web services platform like Azure is as broad in its target as Windows or Windows server is, so it really ultimately targets everybody ... The kind of questions you have to ask in some sense is, 'Where are you targeting first?' We really are going after a couple of major audiences in the early days.
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
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Hey You, Get onto My Cloud
  1. The market has clearly not moved to these cloud-based services, and we still sell more Windows servers every day than people wind up using in all these cloud-based services put together in a year.
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
  2. My primary thought is: I'll get more excited about Azure once they give us some inkling of the pricing -- does it apply to me and my employer, or only to my biggest customers?
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
  3. Hey You, Get onto My Cloud
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
  4. Right now, we're looking at VMware and Amazon because they're open enough for our stuff to work well with theirs, so we're not depending on Microsoft or Google. The open version will prevail, and that isn't where Microsoft is right now
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
  5. They're still experimenting with CRM, but when it comes to entrusting a company's sensitive financial information, it's not something they're comfortable with. And the thought of not being able to process shipping transactions or generate invoices because of a problem beyond their own control gives most...
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
  6. They sold maybe 1.5 million accounts worldwide the past couple of years. That's nothing. When you think there are 1.6 billion hosted e-mail accounts out there and 450 million on-premises Exchange accounts, 1.5 million is a very poor performance
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
  7. Windows Azure is our lowest-level foundation for building and deploying a high-scale service ... providing core capabilities such as virtualized computation; scalable storage in the form of blobs, tables and streams; and perhaps most importantly, an automated services-management system -- a fabric contr...
    Ray Ozzie – Ray Ozzie SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
  8. Our goal with Azure and Visual Studio is to take and infuse an application model into something that the average developer can build
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago
  9. If you're an IT buyer, you're going to trust the enterprise software vendor you're already working with over a company whose online business is being an online retailer, or, in the case of Google, a company whose business is selling ads
    SOURCE: RedmondMag.com 10 months ago

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