>What are peoples thought on virtual machines in Azure etc ?
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>I've used more of these now on various contracts . You can dynamically boost processing power and storage as needed and then dial it down for when you aren't needing it.
>The home or office end just needs a decent internet link and a decent screen on what could be a fairly basic machine.

Cloud stuff great if you have
long running analytic stuff (easy to save oodles of data, partition task, add more machines to same problem,
or are just writing (be it office doc, xls(x) code), where convenience of "any device" synch with anybody is great.

But whenever I need to invoke debugger, I want stuff to be running local.