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There's a division called "Cloud" being headed up by Executive VP Satya Nadella that encompasses Azure and the apps that build on top of it (Office 365, visuals

• JOnAgain 13y ago
  No, there's a division called "Cloud and Enterprise Engineering Group". This suggest that either it encompasses non-cloud offerings specific to enterprise or the cloud they're building is targeting specifically enterprise. Either way, they will not be focused on making Azure a product I wouldn't be interested in: 1 of 2 focuses or targeting someone I'm not. Furthermore, looks like they've split sales/marketing from engineering which will probably help them build more features which are irrelevant to me and put as many PMs between the clients and engineers as possible.
  • ethomson 13y ago
    That you're condemning Azure based on the name of the business unit its produced in and the location of sales and marketing people in a company makes me think that even if we'd named it "JOnAgain's Special Cloud!" that it would be unlikely to have been of interest to you. (Edit: obviously by "we" I mean "my employer Microsoft", not that I had anything to do with any of these decisions.)
  • marshray 13y ago
    I too work in the newly-named "Cloud and Enterprise" group. Previously we were "Server and Tools Division" which also included Active Directory, Azure, and some other stuff as well. The new name makes a lot more sense to me (and makes for a better acronym too).