It never ceases to amaze me how fast microsoft has been iterating with Azure, With Scott Gu running the team things have gotten even better. As for the latest

It never ceases to amaze me how fast microsoft has been iterating with Azure, With Scott Gu running the team things have gotten even better. As for the latest release just the change from that hideous Sliverlight management console is reason enough to be excited. The really interesting announcements should be coming in a few months when the different component providers (CloudDB, MongoDB, etc) start offering Azure based offerings.