Microsoft started working on their own cloud platform only a few months before Amazon announced EC2.

在亚马逊宣布ec2之前的几个月，微软就已经开始了他们自己的云平台。

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Azure has a lot of very useful hooks into the Microsoft platform, so your cloud apps hosted with Azure can integrate fairly seamlessly with existing Microsoft apps.

Azure有很多连接Microsoft平台的非常有用的钩子，所以由azure托管的基于云的应用程序可以无缝地与已有的Microsoft应用程序集成。

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Since announcing their cloud-computing platform Azure last year, Microsoft has made it clear they intend to break into the large-scale hosting market as well.

自从微软去年正式发布自己的云计算平台以来，它非常清楚地知道要扩展更大的市场份额。

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"We are delighted to work together with Microsoft to bring Agawi cloud-based game streaming to Windows 8 via the Windows Azure platform, " said Peter Relan, Executive Chairman of Agawi.

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