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Azure manages to avoid a Hailstorm of criticism
LOS ANGELES--Microsoft's Hailstorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven years ago, but developers seem to have few qualms with Windows Azure, which embraces many of the same notions.
With Windows Azure, Microsoft not only controls the operating system but also the data centers where the applications run and the servers where the information is stored. If anything, Microsoft's control has grown, not shrunk, from the vision that the company outlined in 2001.
So why the lack of uproar this time?
Timing is a huge factor. For one thing, Microsoft's image has changed dramatically … Read more
