Nope, there's no way that's true. Microsoft is only succeeding in cloud computing based on their existing reputation and business relationships, and software th

Nope, there's no way that's true. Microsoft is only succeeding in cloud computing based on their existing reputation and business relationships, and software they managed to port as a service (O365). Without those their cloud would have crashed and burned as the buggy, slow, unreliable, insecure [1] mess that it is. 1 - if you feel like disputing the security record of Azure, they're literally the only big public cloud with more than 0 (and multiple at that!) critical cross-tenant security vulnerabilities, at least some of which were extremely trivial to exploit.