Machiavellian on 16 June 2014
Actually MS has not ditched anything but instead dropped the cloud part. Dedicated Servers under Azure is part of the cloud service platform called PaaS, Platform as a service. What MS is offering is more than your current dedicated service that runs MP type of games. Its still evident that MS is using cloud compute which is part of their cloud initiative because Crackdown will use it. I believe what MS is trying to do is lessen the PR and get the customer base more grounded.
Personally I believed they should have used PaaS to show how dedicated servers are used in a cloud environment instead of something familiar but not complete as dedicated servers.
