This is offtopic for the acquisition, but it looks like Microsoft has a tutorial ready to go for building a forecasting service with R and Azure Machine Learnin

This is offtopic for the acquisition, but it looks like Microsoft has a tutorial ready to go for building a forecasting service with R and Azure Machine Learning: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/machine-learning-r-quickstart/ http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mach...