Paul Thurrott: The announcement of Windows Azure a week ago at Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 marked the second time this year that I've had to reflect on what it's like to get what you wish for. (The first, of course, was Microsoft's decision to make Internet Explorer 8 render Web pages in standards mode, which has resulted in massive incompatibilities for that browser.) You see, I've been a huge proponent of cloud computing solutions for some time now. And yet, with Microsoft finally moving beyond its previous tentative steps into this new computing model, I'm suddenly fearful that the company is moving too fast.
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