It's unfortunate that they trapped so many people with this comment.... AZURE has 300,000 servers. Xbox Live CAN use them. However there is no statement that xbox live has EXCLUSIVE use of them. Azure is a service that is already available and can be used by many different machines. This, like so many other things (looking at u "power of the cloud") were smoke screens to hide the underpowered hardware, and draconian policies that they have since changed. Not hating here, just clearing up so someone doesn't decide to buy on this alone, as i think they would be sorely disappointed afterwards.

Actually, Bungie has confirmed that it uses both, in the game informer article. They have developed a way for the game to mix both dedicated servers and p2p hosting, to create a "mesh" i think is the word they used.