As someone who works on Windows Azure, this got under my skin a bit :). In particular, I thought this was slightly lazy writing

(W.r.t Azure) "I suspect it’s not performing well" and "Put simply, it’s hard to imagine that Microsoft is aggressively developing or marketing Azure, since cloud computing offerings directly threaten Microsoft’s revenues and profitability in the PC market, especially its Windows and Office products. "

From Ballmer mentioning "we're all in" in pretty much every speech he has done recently all the way to Azure being all over the financial analyst meeting [1][2], I sometimes think there's not a day that goes by when I don't hear about Azure in some way from MSFT :)

[1] http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100729/liveblogging-microsofts-... [2] http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Microsoft-Pushes-Cl...