“there is no such thing as a SQL Server team anymore. There is, in fact, no code base called SQL Server. There’s only one code base, which is the Azure database code base.”
Great way to alienate all the companies that haven't bought into the "cloud" PR. Plus all the smaller companies that are wary of the increased prices and pace of change with the increase of versions. Training is already becoming increasingly difficult.
Also after this last weeks revelations concerning data privacy and the NSA, whom will desire to use hosted Azure? Half the questions I answered at a Saturday meeting were concerning PKI and OSS security. These were from business people that couldn't spell PGP a week ago.