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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by dabeeeenster on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:26PM (#22723353)
Their utilization has gone up 700%? Bullshit.
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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by swrj on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:04PM (#22723927)
>"We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders."

Seems to be a cherry picked statistic, not an overall increase in utilization.

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by onefuncman on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:28AM (#22726196)
Uh, it's absolutely true. I have entire offices (100s of people) that switched from Webex to MS Teams for better video quality.
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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:11PM (#22724330)
Not for Azure as a whole, no, but that sounds entirely plausible for specific services like Teams.
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