and OLPC and plenty of others. Now all they have to do is buy them and use them as text book and paper substitutes. It's very cool to see a politician who gets that non free is expensive and bad for kids.
An hour or so offline may be tolerable at times, but how does it feel for Microsoft to be offline for just under 24 hours?
... There are a few points worth making here: Microsoft can use beta as an excuse; Microsoft gives a bad reputation to such clouds, which may work to its advantage by reducing confidence in SaaS; Almost nobody uses Azure, so reporters neither notice nor care.
Shorter outages at Google have been harped on all the way back to their "Beta" beginning, so it's curious no one reported this outage."
According to the Register in summary,
you can't ignore Windows in the data center
Nor could you ignore a black adder but it's not what you expect to find there. Sheesh. How low can the Register go?
As for Cisco, it's a good thing they have piles of cash - business with M$ usually requires a lot of it and M$ is unusually hungry these days.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.