Windows Azure MVP Award Renewed

I'm honored to have again been selected by Microsoft as a Windows Azure MVP. I was part of the inaugural Windows Azure MVP group of October 2010 and am now heading into my third year. Working with the Microsoft product team and my fellow MVPs is extremely rewarding. Like last year, my focus will be on combining Windows Azure effectively with other key technology areas including HTML5, mobility, social networking, and Windows 8.

This is a good moment to reflect on where Windows Azure has been and where it's going. The platform is really in a mature place now, especially after the dazzling debut of new features that came in June of this year. Today, Windows Azure is the only cloud computing platform that provides both a comprehensive PaaS and IaaS offering. The future is bright.

Azure MVP

I'm very honored to have been selected as a Windows Azure MVP by Microsoft. I've been told I was the first selected, so I'm going to consider that a double honor.

To quote the MVP web site, "The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award is an annual award given to outstanding members of Microsoft's technical communities based on contributions made during the previous 12 months to offline and online Microsoft-related technical communities." I'll take that to mean I'm doing something useful to help adoption of this great technology platform.

Well, enough tooting my own horn. I'm happy to have received this valuable credential, and I know I need to keep up participation to have it renewed next year.

Windows Azure certainly has come a long way since I got my first advance look at it 2 years ago. It's growing up rapidly, and I love working with it. The best is yet to come. Go Cloud!