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Azure is one of the big three in cloud computing - Google, Amazon, and Microsoft

• tyingq 10y ago
  And they also run some pretty large things that could be run on ARM with no visible impact to customers. Bing, hosted Outlook, etc.
• robert_foss 10y ago
  Sure, but it is a single cloud. Will you ever be able to buy these products? And would you ever want to? Windows Server 20XX on ARMv8 will forever remain a niche platform at best.
  • deelowe 10y ago
    > Sure, but it is a single cloud. Not sure what that means. Arguably, the cloud computing business is what's driving high performance computing at this point. Go look at the benchmarks for Ryzen, for example. It's pretty clear who AMD is targeting with that architecture (hint: games aren't in desperate need of better multi-core performance). > Will you ever be able to buy these products? And would you ever want to? Windows Server 20XX on ARMv8 will forever remain a niche platform at best. Did you read the article? This is about MS supporting ARM in their cloud offerings (and porting windows to do so). Whether or not consumers will purchase these solutions seems irrelevant in this context.
  • sp332 10y ago
    Their new datacenter is a mile long. It would be profitable to sell chips just for the one datacenter.