Excerpt from the article says it best: "There’s been so much commentary on the proposed mega merger, it borders on overwhelming. Anyone with an inkling of insight on tech and an opinion is weighing in while we all wait for the next dose of fact to supplant innuendo. While I wait, one wonder keeps hitting me: is Microsoft’s collective head in the cloud? That phrasing may sound odd but it’s not a typo. It is meant to be just one cloud – as in the so named concept of Cloud Computing.

As much as web traffic and advertising dominance make an approachable, and rational, near term justification for this deal. There’s also a longer term vision; something more in Microsoft’s view. Cloud computing, as esoteric as it sometimes seems, could be part of it. A big part."