>Microsoft Azure is down in Western Europe ( http://www.cmswire.com/cms/windows-azure-compute-services-go-down-in-western-europe-016696.php ).
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>What a bunch of hosers, I'll use Google Talk to tell everyone. What, they're down too? http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/072612-google-talk-outage-261175.html
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>OK, now we've got Google hosers. Time to tweet it to the whole world. WHAT?! They're down, too?? What a bunch of twits. http://www.zdnet.com/twitters-down-twitters-up-twitters-7000001664/
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>It's a good thing cloud services are getting better all the time, otherwise I might be getting a little worried.

It's going to be a while before I trust the cloud. The fact that Microsoft can't shut up about it is not persuasive.