[brazzledazzle]

I'd also like to hear what part of "Azure" they're using. Microsoft was smart to leverage (force) O365 customers into being Azure customers using AzureAD. What I'd like to know is how many have actually graduated beyond that and are hosting real infrastructure.

[raxxorrax]

As a central European I would also like to know who hosts anything on Azure. They are building new data centers here I believe, but the connection speed their services are providing is laughable. It may work for a retro-site from the 90s to simulate a 56k modem.

If you restrict your employees to browser based office, you would loose a vast amount of productivity.

Their success is probably based on Office alone. AWS does supply extremely fast services and we use it for hosting. But business owners often prefer to use services from a single provider, so MS does indeed have an advantage.