How Microsoft is (and isn't) using its Windows Azure cloud system

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At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft will try to sell companies and developers on the benefits of its new Windows Azure cloud computing platform, in preparation for its official rollout. But it looks like one of Azure's toughest customers will be Microsoft itself.

Tony Scott, who oversees Microsoft's internal IT systems as the company's chief information officer, outlined the benefits of Azure during a speech last week to the Society for Information Management's national convention. At the same time, he noted one of its current shortcomings, and he made it clear that Microsoft isn't taking its systems completely to the cloud, even in the long run.

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