How Seattle became ‘Cloud City’: Amazon and Microsoft are leading a tech revolution

SEATTLE: In a Seattle-area conference room earlier this year, Washington state's two largest employers started sketching out the future. 

In a daylong series of meetings at Microsoft's campus, engineers from the software company knocked heads and keyboards with their counterparts at Boeing. The goal: tapping in to Microsoft's Azure, the software maker's network of on-demand computing power, to build a new generation of software.