>>You obviously don't get out much...

Quick to take offense, quicker to be insulting? ;-)

Thanks for making opinions clear about Azure- but you have to accept that if you frequent MS places, these days only Microsofties will hear what you have to say. Come say it here, just as you did with the ACA website, and others might hear.

>>Two years ago I was very concerned on the entire MS Cloud offering - at a point where some where saying, "hey, in a year from now, if you're not in the Cloud, you're SOL", and I disagreed with those statements. Today I think the future looks "better", and the recent offerings for Office 365 and Power BI for Office 365 look promising - but in all candor, more time and work is needed for this to hit a greater mass.

It'll be interesting to see how many move from Small Business Server to Office 365. The ones I speak to now are treating tech investments like the flatbed truck- you buy it and keep it going until maintenance costs exceed finance costs for a new one. With Android invading the PC space, there's no saying which way people will go next if there are cheap purchase options compared to a perpetual lease.

>>In the case of ACHA, once again (for the hundredth time), the context is very different. Every individual is mandated to buy health insurance by a certain date. The date for the exchanges was announced a long time ago. Far greater scrutiny is called for.

Companies whose Cloud systems vanished for days and came back missing data still had to file returns, pay staff and satisfy creditors. Whereas the sign-up cutoff for ACA is when- tomorrow? No, there's still plenty of time. Sorry, this is a junk science argument trying to equate a website to a patient on an operating table to justify double standards.

As I keep saying, if the website now is remedied and can handle the load then it was an embarrassing start, but quality tech people overcame it. No data is lost, no business went under, nobody died. Shouldn't have happened- but the sun still rises and millions of people are getting their insurance.