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Comment by chasd00

21 hours ago

This gives OpenAI the ability to goto AWS instead of exclusively on Azure. I guess Azure really is hanging on by a thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

And Azure still doesn't support IPv6, looking at the GitHub[1].

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539

OpenAI's thirst for compute probably can't be satisfied by one cloud provider, if at all.

But OpenAI had announced a shift towards b2b and enterprise. It makes sense for their models to be available on the different cloud providers.

Isn't this expected if OpenAI models are going to be listed on AWS GovCloud as a part of the Anthropic / Hegseth fall-out?

What? I thought Azure will always have the Sharepoint/Office/Active Directory cash cow.

  • Their engineers have been working tirelessly to make Sharepoint/Office/Active Directory as terrible as it possibly could be while still technically being functional, while continuing to raise prices on them. I've seen many small business start to chose Google Workspace over them, the cracks have formed and are large enough that they are no longer in a position were every business just go with Office because that's what everyone uses.

    • I see more businesses on the office + Team stack then Google workspace. So far more.

      I think the differentiator is Team, which Google for some mysterious reason can't build or doesn't want to.

    • It is the one thing that makes me wonder about Microsoft's future. It had seemed like they were willing to throw Windows and Xbox under the bus so long as the server cash cow continued. But it that starts to fade, they could be in some real trouble a decade from now.