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It seems like Microsoft is dropping the name Azure from its cloud offerings? I guess I need some help from marketers understanding why Microsoft gravitates towards names for products that are so generic and bland as to be unsearchable terms.  I liked the name Azure, it made it clear when discussing and comparing technologies to know what you were referring to. And more importantly when trying to search for information “Windows Azure” and “SQL Azure” are pretty specific.  Try to search for “Windows” or even “.NET”.  Now we can add to that list “Cloud Services”, “CDN” and “Service Bus”, yeah I’m sure that’ll narrow it right down. There must be some branding reason for it but it eludes me.  I have my own terms that might work better. Windows Azure Compute The Windows Azure Platform Thing Windows Azure CDN It Windows Azure Storage That Windows Azure Traffic Manager This Windows Azure Virtual Network Some AppFabric Cache More AppFabric Service Bus Stuff AppFabr

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability” - Edsger W. Dijkstra Ajax Control Toolkit May 2012 Release - I’m always fascinated when the ajaxtoolkit gets updated. A/B Testing: It's not about the results, and it's definitely not about the why - Pointing out that you can measure behavior but you can’t discern why a certain change had a particular effect on behavior from an A/B so you need to understand your expirement. Your WebAPP’s Worst Performance Bottleneck Maybe in the CSS Stylesheet - This another potential source of performance problems I’ve personally never paid attention to. Knockout 2.1 Is Out More ways to measure your website's performance with User Timings - New Google Analytic metrics for measure performance characteristics of the page execution client-side. Mobile analytics This just in: Cloud computing is hard and takes a long time - So its not just me? Nice C# idiom for parameterless lambdas - Interesting little syntax trick I came across The Flop

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability” - Edsger W. Dijkstra Ajax Control Toolkit May 2012 Release - I’m always fascinated when the ajaxtoolkit gets updated. A/B Testing: It's not about the results, and it's definitely not about the why - Pointing out that you can measure behavior but you can’t discern why a certain change had a particular effect on behavior from an A/B so you understand your expirement. Your WebAPP’s Worst Performance Bottleneck Maybe in the CSS Stylesheet - This another potential source of performance I’ve personally never paid attention to. Knockout 2.1 Is Out More ways to measure your website's performance with User Timings - New Google Analytic metrics for measure performance characteristics of the page execution client-side. Mobile analytics This just in: Cloud computing is hard and takes a long time - So its not just me? Nice C# idiom for parameterless lambdas - Interesting little syntax trick I came across The Floppy Disk means Save