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tl;dr: This is a Microsoft puff piece written by a PR firm. The ranking is based on abstract things like "completeness of offerings" and "future vision". There'
by skookum 9y ago
tl;dr: This is a Microsoft puff piece written by a PR firm. The ranking is based on abstract things like "completeness of offerings" and "future vision". There's a token revenue comparison as well in an attempt to give some substance which compares all of Microsoft's "cloud" (that is to say inclusive of things like Office 365) against Amazon's IaaS.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThis has become annoyingly common and incredibly difficult to discern from honest articles these days. Google in particular seems to prefer them over actual blog posts of their own these days, and has major outlets like The Verge and WIRED heavily publishing for them. I feel like its already well-known people are supposed to disclose when they are paid for an article, but there are non-monetary perks like exclusive interviews/access which aren't clearly disclosed as conflicts.
- falcolas 9y agoWell, there was also the two revenue figures for their respective offerings. Doesn't get too much more concrete than that.