It was to spread awareness about to get yourself acquainted with Windows Azure by signing up for trial subscription and get incentive for doing so as well. So that people can make well informed decision about their next project cloud deployment. Most of us might have already tried Amazon AWS, Google app engine and Heroku etc.

So the intent was that to help people to get to Azure and let them try it. I was thinking what could be the reason people didn't even bothered to read the blog post.

Is it hacker news user don't like Windows Azure? Or this is not the right place? or time was wrong? or something else?

If you feel - you should try Windows Azure once, let's give it try and help me to spread the word. I will appreciate your comments.

(Note: I'm no way affiliated with Microsoft, I just use their products/frameworks)