Very good points on Azure. I never knew that you had the chance to talk to Ori – this was surely fun! I like your bottom-up cake-layer-based explaination of the whole picture, the memory comparison on the services was an eyeopener. You know I’m diving into this mesh thing at the moment, so one word more: I really like Ori’s media center example, but what I LOVE at this example: for you as developer there is no need for just one network call. All those data access and synchronization is done by the Live Operating Environment in the background. That’s shifting developer experiences so much and I’m waiting in suspense to see the first killer-apps based on that. I’m going to write about my thoughts towards the advantages that come with Mesh and the Live Services for consumers and developers later on.

So far for now,
Matthias