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The bad news for Microsoft isn't that Azure is down, it's that only a tiny number of people even noticed.

Less than 3.8% of users were affected, take your trolling else where.

Is it really trolling? Honestly, who uses Azure? Like most MSDN subscribers I did some mashing in it -- that still exists -- but did absolutely nothing real in it. My sense is that very, very few did anything beyond prototyping in it.

And just to add some opinion, the reason I wouldn't even consider it is Microsoft absolutely flippant ADD when it comes to online services. I have zero faith that they won't just shut it down tomorrow.

Apple for one: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/apples-iclo...

A whole bunch of universities and government agencies.

Such as? Microsoft's case studies for Azure are absolutely dismal.

I note the other comment mentions Apple, which was a pre-release beta rumor based upon the IP that a beta iMessage lived at (since moved). It speaks volumes, I think, when such a disproven pre-release claim is still held as the example.

-1? For real? "A whole bunch" is not a credible statement of fact.

And unfortunately that with outages like this, that number's probably not increasing anytime soon.

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