We've introduced a whole new platform for writing Smart applications in the internet, a new version of Windows that we call, "Windows Azure."

我们已经为网路智能设施的应用,引入了大量新的平台，“视窗“系统的新版本叫做“云计算“

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Microsoft has made it even easier (and cheaper) to extend those to Azure with a host of validated instances ready to run your critical MS workloads.

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However, most likely, Azure represents a mere bridge from the present paradigm in which the operating system drives the performance of our devices to the next digital paradigm where our devices become mere conduits for Big Data and artificial intelligence platforms that are run from the cloud.

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Microsoft confirmed late Feb. 29 that a service outage that affected its Azure cloud computing service was caused by a Leap Year bug.

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