Hi Microsoft,
I cant help thinking that Microsoft is pursuing some sort of imperialist western agenda with the deployment of its worldwide Azure Datacenters! As an independent software developer based here in Dubai with clients right across Africa, The Middle East and the Sub-continent we currently have the choice of hosting in Western Europe (Amsterdam) which is between 6500km and 8000km away from our clients, or South East Asia (Singapore) 5000 to 11000kms away.
Guys it is time to realize that there is 2/5's of the worlds population nearby - lets see something proactive in terms of datacenter deployment, and get the priorities right instead of deploying two new datacenters in Australia to service only 20mill people.
Get with it fellows!