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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I was minutes away from posting this -
      got a Facebook message from friend at said company this morning,
      they are pretty excited but again mentioned no time frame. Will
      hassle him for more info in coming times :)<br>
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      On 21/05/13 13:58, Damian Guppy wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">This was a large about face. 
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        <div>Microsoft has just annouced that they are opening up an
          Azure Region in australia. No details on time frame, but they
          said they will open datacenters in both NSW and Vic.</div>
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        <div style="">I'm guessing the pressure from AWS and co opening
          up lately started to take its toll on microsoft. I just hope
          they don't do something silly like make it an "exclusive"
          partnership with telstra like Office365.</div>
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        <div style="">--Damian</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Joseph
          Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A friend
            who works for probably one of the biggest Azure partners in
            Australia suggests that there are no plans for an Australian
            outfit at this time. I'd imagine they'd be apprised to this
            information as they are a big customer and would be keen to
            move into Australian based instances immediately if they
            were available!
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                On 3/05/13 8:20 AM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:<br>
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                  Now that Amazon has AWS locally any talk of Microsoft
                  doing the same?<br>
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