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The most common objection we hear in the field is that Windows Azure is not ready, that we have a cloud platform that's only been in market a few months. One of the things we need to make sure we reiterate with customers is the fact that we have actually been in the cloud services business for over a decade, with Xbox Live, with Hotmail, with a lot of our properties that we have offered a service online, even Office. So, cloud services are not new to us. Windows Azure is just the latest iteration of the application platform we allow customers to employ in our data centers.