> "Microsoft Azure. Hell, wasn't there a story on the frontpage of HN a day or so ago that iCloud uses it?" The moment someone like Apple starts running a MS-b

> "Microsoft Azure. Hell, wasn't there a story on the frontpage of HN a day or so ago that iCloud uses it?" The moment someone like Apple starts running a MS-based stack... well, I'd stay inside for fear of airborne pigs. Let's see - a company that is solidly 'nix (to the point where their own desktop OS is POSIX), who has zero track record of building anything using a MS stack, is suddenly going to use MS's cloud offering, despite there being as-good (more likely, better) 'nix based solutions? Mmm. I'm willing to put money on that one :)