SOA filling the Gaps

In my Vendor's Survival posts I wrote about many leading vendors. Few posts were on Microsoft:  Will Microsoft survive until 2021? - revisited Will Microsoft survive until 2021? Vendors Survival: Will Microsoft Survive until 2018? I also posted about Vendors technologies, strategies and acquisitions related to their Long Term survival. The post  Microsoft's Skype acquisition: Warning Signs ahead is an example. Yesterday, there was a long Microsoft Azure Service Outage . The reason for the outage was a time miscalculation for a leap year .  A long Service Outage is not unique to Windows Azure's PaaS  platform. There were long Service Outage in services provided by other Cloud Computing vendors such as Amazon and Google . The outage has nothing to do with Microsoft's Long Term Survival probability.   The reason for the outage is related to Microsoft's Survival: It is an indication of a very poor Software  Quality Assurance . Yesterday Microsoft proved th...