Windows Azure Offers

re: Windows Azure Offers

Damir Dobric — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:05:04 GMT

Ne offers for partners: msdn.microsoft.com/.../ee461076.aspx

re: Windows Azure Offers

ToddySM — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:04:16 GMT

@Damir and Andreas: You are not the only ones who gave us this feedback :) As you can see from www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com those two are the highest ranked requests. However I will leave it to our business team to decide when and in what form will this come.

@Andreas: The main differences between the local environment and the cloud is that you run as administrator on your local machine, which gives you much more freedom to install and run applications. However running as administrator in the cloud is not the right thing to do from security point of you. This is one more thing that we received as feedback and looking to improve in the future.

re: Windows Azure Offers

Andreas Erben — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:02:36 GMT

Only that it is in fact not exactly the same.

I have read enough postings about how their local environment behaves differently - it might work for many or most people, but it seems it does not work for all. Typically "why is this working in my local simulation environment and not when I deploy it..."

Also if you want to simulate a more complex application... it is not just an isolated Azure 'hosted' application but includes connectivity to on-premises services, it includes mixed-onsite-offsite-storage models (where data needs to be pulled/pushed/sychnronized with local storages), it includes testing the User Experience regarding responsiveness/lags... and much more.

I strongly recommend to have a really free 'online' Azure development environment with a different SLA and potentially measures to restrict abuse for live-purposes.

re: Windows Azure Offers

Damir Dobric — Sat, 08 May 2010 12:38:15 GMT

Hi Toddy,

the fact that you are thinking to simplify it, gives me i peace of hope :)

The MSDN Intro offer sounds almost good. We, partners have a problem with that offer, because it is time limited.

Few weeks ago all my test project have been canceled, just because I didn't have a time or didn't want to subscribe any of actual offers.

The same will happen when MSDN Intro offer ends up in few months.

re: Windows Azure Offers

ToddySM — Thu, 06 May 2010 06:52:41 GMT

Hi Damir,

I work on Windows Azure Platform and have to agree that the offers can be confusing. But we are working to simplify those, and make them more understandable and clear.

On your question which one developers can use - the MSDN and Introductory Special ones are targeted to people who would like to try out the platform.

In addition we provide fully functional simulation environment that can be used for development and testing. It runs on your local machine, and it is free of charge.

I hope this help a little to clear the confusion.

Toddy