It's true if you bend the rules a bit... Read the article and you'll notice this gem: > Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure includes Azure, as well as software

It's true if you bend the rules a bit... Read the article and you'll notice this gem: > Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure includes Azure, as well as software provided to partners to create related Windows cloud services, Anderson said in an interview That is a really vague statement that could mean all sorts of things (Office 365, Windows Server licensees, etc).