I still have a wait and see attitude towards cloud computing, but I'm cynical enough (re: been around long enough) to know that Microsoft doesn't have the engineering chops to pull this off. Given the choice between using Microsoft's implementation of an openly developed design, or using technology that Microsoft themselves cooked up, I choose the former.
I could list quite a few, but I'll cite CORBA as a specific example. Common Object Reqest Broker Architecture. Soundly designed, implemented by several vendors. Microsoft's answer: DCOM. Need I say more?
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