> "In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress..."

Wow! That was unexpectedly - what should I say - candid?

And I actually appreciate you all being here : )

But please distinguish between

- "helping customers where they are" which is a great idea and

- secretly pushing an agenda.

And if anyone wonders about how do you distinguish between those two here's a rule of thumb:

in the first case if someone realizes you work for that company it feels good. In the second case it probably feels bad.