[mehta]

Can you elaborate a bit? I have not used either and would love to know what is different between the two and why you prefer one over the other.

Edit: I saw a few comments about original commenter being a MS employee. To be clear, I am a Google Employee (and ex-msft employee) :). But who our employers are is really besides the point. My question about pros and cons still remains.

[jsolson]

I went and took a look at the walkthrough for GAE[0] and Azure[1].

Azure offers the ability to push to, say, GitHub and have that result in an Azure deployment. For some users that might be a really nice feature, as it ensures they don't end up with code deployed that can't be browsed in their "authoritative" code browser.

Of course, they're both very similar to what Heorku has done more or less since its inception.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/push-to-deploy

[1]: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/p...

[blibble]

comment history and a bit of googling would suggest he's an MS employee...

[levosmetalo]

pure ad hominem. the "fact" he's an former/current MS employee doesn't make his personal claims any more valid or invalid, and thus is irrelevant for the discussion.

on a side note, people on hn are outraged by NSA spying on us here, but perfectly happy to search, collect, process, organize and publicly disclose "data" about other people here.

[estebank]

> pure ad hominem. the "fact" he's an former/current MS employee doesn't make his personal claims any more valid or invalid, and thus is irrelevant for the discussion.

The possible existence of personal bias for/against a particular company/technology/person is useful. I don't see how implying that the OP is an employee of a competitor of Google is an ad hominem attack, unless you consider disclosing association wich can cause bias/preference in the topic at hand an attack. I see it merely as a framing device.

> people on hn are outraged by NSA spying on us here, but perfectly happy to search, collect, process, organize and publicly disclose "data" about other people here.

Do you really fail to see the difference between an individual using information that has been made voluntarily public too check somebody up and the systematic monitoring of all public and private communications of people around the world by a single entity?

[blibble]

can you point out the part where I attempted to discredit his point because he's an MS employee, even discussed his point at all?

because I can't see it.

[jader201]

I would say because it was in response to a question about why he preferred one over the other.