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Microsoft has unveiled a cloudy content distribution service that will intensify its competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Azure Media Services is billed as a “cloud platform for managing and distributing media to any screen, anywhere” and as a cloudified version of Microsoft's existing Media Platform. Users can encode …

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  1. southpacificpom
    Devil

    Can you please stay away from my bits

    "Azure Media Services ready to send your bits to almost any device"

    Can you please stay away from my bits..

    1. LarsG
      Meh

      If

      If The Daily Mail or Dianne Abbot get hold of this article they will think it is all about porn and then will start a campaign to ban it!

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: If

        I suspect Dianne Abbot would send it to private school first....

        Ooh, get me, a little bit of politics there...

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: If

        Worse yet, the headline just put the idea of Ballmer porn into my head :(

        1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
          Paris Hilton

          Re: If

          Microsoft Azure - Banned in Britain?

  2. Arctic fox
    Happy

    I will freely admit that the "blue movie" subheading went over my head for several minutes.....

    ............until I remembered what "azure" literally means. I was clearly not awake at the time!

  3. P. Lee
    FAIL

    > the new cloudy service can do just about anything required to get video into Joe and Jane Public's eyeballs, all without messy on-premises hardware or the need to adopt new tools.

    What makes MS think content-providers want that?

    I mean, they could just stream h264 video to all-comers, but instead they wrap it up in nasty flash obfuscated apps. In Oz, TV is all tablet-unfriendly mpeg2.

    No, they want to rent you black box with some dodgy encryption and charge a premium for it as well as the content.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      It's called monetizing. It's what businesses do. It's what makes money that pays employee salaries. It's how we get money from people that have nothing better to do with their money than sit around watching TV.

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