You refer to the words of FluffyPony? Fluffy-YouReadItRight-Pony? Man, you are the best on these boards!

None of the above.

We contacted them, they told us what we needed to do. It basically consisted of signing a Contributor License Agreement, submitting a PR to the Azure templates Github repo, and sending them a write-up. Took us like 3 or 4 hours:)

All the altcoins saying that Microsoft is "partnering" with them are being disingenuous - you are a partner inasmuch as you have a BizSpark account and signed a CLA.

The upshot of this, however, is that developers that are already using Azure can build applications on top of the Monero blockchain, and are able to spin nodes up quickly and easily.

Haha..
As with all things you say, this is factually false. Microsoft brings on board projects they see value in after having discussions and providing plans based on those discussions. But hey, please make altcoinUK-chain and get a partnership with them if you genuinely believe you can just 'sign-up'. If you manage it I will give you some free iotas that you can use to sue me for embarrassing you or something.

It'll be peripherally interesting to see how you will continue to get increasingly desperate as IOTA advances and grows as a ecosystem with more and more start-ups signing up to use the tech, established companies who want to run pilots with it, research being conducted on it etc.

One question for you though, on a serious level: you claim to be a WoT contributer, right?

Perfekt! Genau dich als sabbelnde Mülltonne wollte ich schon immer mal neben meinem Komposthaufen stehen haben - du bist angeheuert, kannst schon mal üben: Mach 'aaaaaaaah'

Und wo du schonmal dabei bist, erzähl mir noch mal was über die Juristen hier in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland!