This is classic FUD: "we're working on it", "it'll be quite a bit better". It's only relevant when it's released. In the meantime, let's work with something that actually exists.
If you are a Microsoft developer, and you expect to need a cloud infrastructure, this means that if you can afford to wait and see, maybe you don't have to throw away your existing investment in Microsoft tools. If you have a sizable investment in Microsoft tools this is likely very important to you, because migrating from .Net to either AWS or Google App Engine would be enormously complicated.