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Re:Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its "cloud OS" by gaius on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @11:08AM (#346356)
What about Icesave?
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Re:Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its "cloud OS" by mattmaroon on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @04:06PM (#346712)
A few banks in the entire world have failed. That qualifies as almost nobody.

Do they have anything like the FDIC over there? Even if retail banks did fail here, everyone would get 250k back per.

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Re:Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its "cloud OS" by gaius on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @04:26PM (#346725)
They did... Until the Icelandic government reneged. The UK government (lots of UK citizens had money there) then seized all their assets in the UK. It's a huge diplomatic mess.
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