Hi John
I took the getting started arcticle of you a bit further and tried quite a lot in Windows Azure. My goal was to see whether it would be useful to deploy small networks mostly automated.
Link: http://www.cloudtec.ch/blog/tech/installing-windows-8-on-windows-azure.html
As there is not much in documentation out I would like to point to my blog where I posted my experiment and also made a YouTube video of some functionalities.

Regards
Chris