[Microsoft says hello again to China, goodbye to Russia] Microsoft has opened a fifth Azure region in China with one hand while putting a stop to new sales in Russia with the other. The Redmond software giant declared today that its new Azure region in North China went live with unrestricted access for customers on 1 March, with capabilities including hybrid and multi- cloud deployment, IoT, edge computing, and data intelligence.… This data comes from the ChinaPulse.com media intelligence and smart news insights monitoring platform . Original URL: [Click here to visit original article]