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Google has announced that Microsoft users can now deploy their licenses in its cloud. The announcement means Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint and other Microsoftery can now happily run in Google's cloud without the need for extra licenses. The news brings Google to parity with Amazon Web Services, so this isn' …

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  1. Mikel

    Microsoft + Google partnership

    I'll take "signs of the apocalypse" for 100 Alex.

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    1. kain preacher
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      Re: Microsoft + Google partnership

      And the the daily double shows up. How much would you like to wager ?

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  2. Douchus McBagg

    uurffffff

    oh god it's happening isn't it. the battle lines are being drawn and the alliances formed.

    the consumerist populace is being divvied up between the corps.

    I'm windows from front to back because I imagined Microsoft make enough money not to need to farm my information out for ad revenue. unlike the big G. and they are not the (quote) "wheelchair ramp to the internet for the intellectually incompetent" (end quote) like apple.

    then they throw their lot in with google. dammit!

    welp, there goes the farm Dorothy.

    maybe ... maybe apple is the other way after all...? I can't believe I'm thinking that...

    maybe IBM can come out with OS2/warp 2015 edition and save us all? sorry. I'm going to go and have a little lie down.

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