It's only mostly irrelevant: if you're not already using Microsoft tools (and you're probably not, if you're on news.yc), this is surely irrelevant to you. This

It's only mostly irrelevant: if you're not already using Microsoft tools (and you're probably not, if you're on news.yc), this is surely irrelevant to you. This surely isn't going to make anyone switch to Microsoft tools. If you are a Microsoft developer, and you expect to need a cloud infrastructure, this means that if you can afford to wait and see, maybe you don't have to throw away your existing investment in Microsoft tools. If you have a sizable investment in Microsoft tools this is likely very important to you, because migrating from .Net to either AWS or Google App Engine would be enormously complicated.