It is always very smart to take the prognostications of the dunderheads that make up the cheering section formally known as the tech media with a very jaundiced eye.

Why?

Because of their insularity as regards everything Silly Valley!

While the level of cynicism may seem unfair, it really is not, and quite justified.

For instance, look at cloud services.

If, Amazon and Microsoft, both firms not based in Silicon Valley, but in the Pacific Northwest state of Washington, had heeded their writings and evangelism, we would not have either Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure today.

The lamestream tech media had already called it for Google, with companies like Rackspace as runner-up, and both Microsoft and Amazon as cannon-fodder also-rans.

Today is May 1, in the Year of Our Lord 2015, Anno Domini, and guess who the leaders are in this space?

By revenue: Amazon Web Services.

By features, ease of use, and extremely idiot-proof hybridization, Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure is Windows. A superset of it.

Microsoft Azure is Hyper-V. Again, a superset of it.

Microsoft Azure is easy to use.

Microsoft Azure is inexpensive.

Microsoft Azure makes my staff’s jobs happy.

Many more, but I am sure you get the reasons why Microsoft Azure is the SmallBizWindows Cloud of the Year 2016.

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