> Azure, however, is a platform built atop the web platform Not necessarily, though, right? "The web" isn't just web browsers and mobile devices. Most code tha

> Azure, however, is a platform built atop the web platform Not necessarily, though, right? "The web" isn't just web browsers and mobile devices. Most code that I write that's run in the cloud is just "compute" and is crunching numbers. If anything, Microsoft is relying on Intel/AMD for all of their processors, as well as any other third party hardware manufacturers. Intel could force Microsoft to change all of their Azure servers in some way for them to upgrade and they wouldn't have much of a choice. Probably why Apple and Google have started to develop their own chips and hardware.