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> proprietary anti-open-source bait.

Can you tell me which of the ~1000 VM images they provide as listed in the below site are proprietary? All? None? Some?

http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index

Also, Azure charges you less for Linux VMs compared Windows VMs with the same hardware specs. A medium instance costs 12cents/hour with Linux and 18c/hr with Windows Server. That's 50% higher! If anything, it looks like they're trying to lock you into Linux. I don't have any beef with Amazon, but it looks like you haven't really looked at Azure before making such sweeping assertions with zero details, except some handwaving which makes it sad that this is the top comment on this story.

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It's funny to see times when someone who is refusing to use Microsoft products is actually closed-minded!