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		thinkpad20 on Sept 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM Watson API "Really failed"? According to Forbes in July of this year[0], Microsoft is second only to Amazon in the cloud market, and gaining. I'm not sure how that counts as a failure, except in the sense that Microsoft makes a popular whipping boy. [0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/07/28/amazon-i...

_ondq on Sept 24, 2014 [–]

I suspect (but don't have confirmation) that this includes Microsoft's SaaS products like Exchange Online/O365, which are very successful.

I get the impression that Azure specifically as PaaS/IaaS, OTOH, is quite a bit less so. At least compared to AWS.

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