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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by crop_rotation on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:20PM (#35295710)
Azure is a functioning newish business.

The difference is Microsoft already has a very diversified revenue stream. Google only has search.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by dataflow on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:23PM (#35295755)
In what sense is Azure "newish"? It started around 2008 IIUC, just like Android.
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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by crop_rotation on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:52PM (#35296154)
It is newish in the sense of business size. It might have been created in 2008 but it has grown only recently to a point where it can be seen as a separate independent business.
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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by nunez on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:20PM (#35296466)
It "started" in 2008 as just an app platform for .NET apps in the cloud called Windows Azure.

The move to become a cloud provider happened, I want to say, in 2015-ish.

You couldn't even get VMs on Azure for the longest time, and their VM service reached parity with AWS very recently.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by dataflow on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:54PM (#35297284)
I went to look this up, and [1] says "virtual machines for Windows and Linux were introduced in 2012".

[1] https://studysection.com/blog/history-of-microsoft-azure/

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