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Very interesting to see. Quite unexpected, but compelling when combined with Azure Machine Learning.

I wonder if we'll see R support integrated with Office in the future. Native R integration with Access and Excel could be pretty cool.

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This is offtopic for the acquisition, but it looks like Microsoft has a tutorial ready to go for building a forecasting service with R and Azure Machine Learning:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mach...

Would be very interesting to see if they also integrate it in Visual Studio, and have a similar development environment to R Studio

For people working in Microsoft Office only places that will be HUGE. (used M$ but got 3 down votes for using that acronym)

For the down vote. Do you know how hard it was for me to get approval to use R by my company's M$ IT department? It took months to get official approval.

The down votes are, if I had to guess, due to the use of M$ as a "clever" euphemism for Microsoft.

That's why I downvoted...

Sorry that has been the acronym for Microsoft for a good 20 years, especially in Linux/Open Source circles. Sorry I was not trying be clever. I certainly never invented it's use.

M$ = Microsoft isn't seen as the best. Here is conversation on Stack Overflow. http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6185/is-m-for-micros... Guess the days of referring a negative point of view towards Microsoft or a Microsoft IT Department isn't accepted anymore by using communicating this by M$.

I blame the stupid text message - script kiddie leet speech that came afterwards destroying this practice.

I know it has been an acronym in those circles. However, it's a rather unintelligent and unprofessional way to articulate dislike. It requires no thought to type out M$ and a lot of thought to articulate a cogent argument against Microsoft. I'd say that it is even harder now then it was 20 years ago... as microsoft is doing a lot of things right.

This down voting makes me want to just leave Hacker News every time. Sorry I don't meet you cool intelligence. Guess us 1980's folk just need to go somewhere else.

Unprofessional this is a news site with the name Hacker News without the hacker culture. It is Start Up culture and I need to find a new place for news.

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