Well, remember Windows Azure is designed to run at a scale of tens of thousands of servers. Really no customer is running at that kind of scale. So, there’s definitely capabilities in Azure that are interesting, but frankly they go beyond what most customers — really what all customers would need to build their own cloud and their own data center.Windows Server and Hyper-V are very much structured to be able to build your own private cloud, absolutely. The area where we see probably the greatest set of evolution happening is in System Center, and let me give you some examples. We will evolve System Center to have capabilities like self-service so that departments, business units within an organization can provision their own instances of the cloud to really virtual machines within the cloud to run their own applications.
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I think that ‘private clouds’, whatever that actually means, are important stepping stones to ‘real clouds’ for a lot of businesses. I think that some organisations will feel more comfortable moving to a private cloud in the short term.