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Azure is a functioning newish business. The difference is Microsoft already has a very diversified revenue stream. Google only has search.

• dataflow 4y ago
  In what sense is Azure "newish"? It started around 2008 IIUC, just like Android.
  • crop_rotation 4y ago
    It is newish in the sense of business size. It might have been created in 2008 but it has grown only recently to a point where it can be seen as a separate independent business.
  • nunez 4y ago
    It "started" in 2008 as just an app platform for .NET apps in the cloud called Windows Azure. The move to become a cloud provider happened, I want to say, in 2015-ish. You couldn't even get VMs on Azure for the longest time, and their VM service reached parity with AWS very recently.
    • dataflow 4y ago
      I went to look this up, and [1] says "virtual machines for Windows and Linux were introduced in 2012". [1] https://studysection.com/blog/history-of-microsoft-azure/ https://studysection.com/blog/history-of-microsoft-azure/