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It doesn't run or host any part of those?

> Azure runs Office 365, Exchange, Bing, and Xbox Live assets as well

I didn't take "runs [...] assets" to mean runs the entire thing.

Bits and bobs run on top of pure azure, and some infra is definitely shared, but anything cloudy that came up around the same time as or before azure (like Bing and o365) used and for the most part still uses their own data centers and deployment tech.

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