Microsoft Azure: Cutting prices on compute and storage

Post by dantiberian » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 10:40 PM UTC

  I’ve yet to meet a developer who travels just to hear about pricing updates,
  so you won’t see us take the stage at Build and use the opening moment 
  to announce a price cut. This isn’t retail; innovation matters. 
  I’ll cover pricing right here, right now.

Post by ternaryoperator » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 10:43 PM UTC

opendomain wrote: post #16

I am a Microsoft fan, but they are doing the cloud all wrong. To setup Azure, you have to use silverlight. To access the servers, you use remote desktop. Microsoft office 365 is $100 PER YEAR - much more than I would pay for the full suite (over 4years of average use) If you want to use SQL server, expect to pay $$$ - and integration or reporting services are not included. There is another feature that is actually ni…

Post by city41 » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 10:52 PM UTC

yulaow wrote: post #17

jtchang wrote: post #11

Hate on Microsoft all you want but this is a great thing. If Microsoft feels they want to play in the infrastructure as a service game they need to earn the customer's trust. Price matching is certainly one way to do it. Azure does run linux by the way (a lot of people don't know that). One thing I've been going back and forth about is whether I "trust" Google App Engine or Microsoft Azure more. Both are juggernauts…

Also with Bizspark you can have, if I remember well, like 150E/month to spend on azure for 3 years. Considering that almost any IT startup can access to bizspark, it is a nice thing to at least try it. Also I love the fact they are distributing their sdks for other os (linux and osx) and that they are all opensource on github

Post by hueving » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 10:56 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #22

nlh wrote: post #13

Yet another example of competition working out well for the consumer. Innovation, price drops, etc. Can you imagine a world where consumer broadband had the same level of competition? Sigh...a nerd can dream...

> Can you imagine a world where consumer broadband had the same level of competition? Sigh...a nerd can dream... Yes, in most European countries. :)

Post by pdq » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 11:05 PM UTC

nlh wrote: post #13

Yet another example of competition working out well for the consumer. Innovation, price drops, etc. Can you imagine a world where consumer broadband had the same level of competition? Sigh...a nerd can dream...