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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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