I just read this (part of a larger article) on VMware in the cloud:
Jackson also took the opportunity to get in a dig about Microsoft‘s Azure cloud computing initiative.
Microsoft is painting a beautiful picture about cloud computing, but according to its own internal documents is not using its own Hyper-V virtualization platform because it cannot easily pool CPU, memory, and networking resources, Jackson said.
“Azure represents a one-way ticket to a desert island,” he said.