By "other offerings", I assume you mean AWS as no one else is even close in service offerings. http://cloudtimes.org/2015/05/27/gartner-magic-quadrant-report-shows-only-a-race-between-aws-and-azure/

There are things Azure does that AWS doesn't. AWS doesn't have Azure Web Sites. AWS won't allow you to share a server and then they handle all the patching. These don't seem like big items, but are important to thousands of users.


>Look, MS has a very good product with Azure - but it's not dissimilar to other offerings. Sharepoint, I consider a good product too. But again I can do much of the same things with other products. So what are they offering that is taking the industry over. Let's hope windows 10 does not fall on it face.
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