Microsoft-Accenture venture to fluff Azure clouds

Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud is leaking out of Redmond through a joint venture with Accenture. Windows' desktop and server cloud computing outfit has signed an agreement for Accenture and its Avanade subsidiary to become just the second and third companies to sell, host and deliver Windows Azure services to customers. …

[Anonymous Coward]

Accenture - certified brain dead

Now, Microsoft’s consulting partner Accenture and its subsidiary Avanade – a joint venture formed between the two companies in 2000 – joins Fujitsu in the Azure cloud.

Adam Warby, Avanade chief executive, said in a statement about the Windows Azure agreement: “With more certified Windows Azure architects than any other Microsoft partner, coupled with our unique insights and innovation and integrated global delivery capabilities, we are able to help organisations quickly migrate to Windows Azure and realise business results faster.”

Is he talking about a different planet ?

Accenture - the company that answers the question you didn't ask, and says 'What' when you point this out.

[Field Marshal Von Krakenfart]

Re: Accenture - certified brain dead

Fixed it for you...

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I'd view that announcement in the same way as hearing that Josef Fritzl has opened a crèche.

[Anonymous Coward]

To be fair...

... Accenture aren't quite as daft as they look here.

M$ puts up the money, M$ pays Accenture to build stuff to suck punters into Azure, fails, punters never arrive, M$ soaks up the big loss, Accenture still makes a profit.