Microsoft will cut some Azure compute prices

Good news for businesses using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: their infrastructure bills may be shrinking come February.Microsoft announced that it will be permanently reducing the prices for its Dv2 compute instances by up to 17 percent next month, depending on the type of instance and what it's being used for. Users will see the greatest savings if they're running higher performance Linux instances -- up to 17 percent lower prices than they've been paying previously. Windows instance discou