This is huge for Microsoft, because this is how Azure is finally starting to get...

photorized on Feb 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

This is huge for Microsoft, because this is how Azure is finally starting to get accepted by the startup/VC community. They never had difficulty selling Azure to the enterprise, but for startups - AWS had always been the default choice.