Hi I’m Mike Wickstrand, Senior Director of Product Planning for Windows Azure. If you have something you need from Windows Azure, please tell us what it is and vote for other's ideas. We want to better understand what you need from Windows Azure and to build plans around how we make the things that "bubble to the top" a reality for our customers in the future.
If you are interested in learning more about how The Windows Azure Team thinks about these ideas, please visit my blog here for an update: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wickstrand/archive/2010/11/02/windows-azure-a-year-of-listening-learning-engineering-and-now-delivering.aspx
Thanks in advance!
Mike
| Mike Wickstrand | Senior Director, Windows Azure Product Planning | Microsoft |
| Email: mikewic@microsoft.com | http://www.twitter.com/wickstrand |
| Web: http://blogs.msdn.com/wickstrand/ |
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148 votes
Add MapReduce equivalent (low cost intensive parallelized CPU)
It would be really nice if Azure was featuring a MapReduce service to offload really intensive CPU operations.
Even better if MapReduce is made 100% .NET managed as it would allow processing power to be much more "burstable" (not need to redeploy entire VMs, only the .NET package).
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7 votes
Develop Azure apps sans IDES
I like Google's AppEngine because all I need sis a very small SDK. I do not need to download a monster such as Visual Studio. I think it would make developers lives better if you provide a means to develop AzureApps using simple scripts like yaml and dynamic languages, such… more
Status: completedThis capability is supported today.
Cory's blog link below shows how you can use an SDK for the open source Language of your choice, plus command-line tools to facilitate an end to end development process of deploying to Windows Azure.
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3 votes
Provide a visual editor for the CSCFG file
The current editor is not very intuitive and it is cumbersome to edit config files. Please provide a better tool
Status: completedThis is supported today, per Jim's comment below.
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3 votes
simple UI to manage the configurations & settings - maybe like the asp.net website configuration etc
Status: completedThis is supported today, per Jim's comment below
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6 votes
Allow Devfabric to run on different IP addresses for internal shared development
Currently DevFabric will only run on 127.0.0.1 which limits internal development on sensitive projects or cross platform development scenarios.
Status: completedThis is supported today. Please see the link that Cory provided for more details.
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8 votes
Provide Team Foundation Server on Azure
Provide Team Foundation Server to allow developper to share a development infrastructure on the cloud.
Of course, pricing should depend on usage.Status: completedTFS on Windows Azure was announced at PDC2010
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10 votes
Support Active Directory authentication
Allow items in azure to be secured and accessed using active directory (or windows) authentication.
Status: completedAD is supported via AppFabric ACS. ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) can publish AD in the Cloud
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11 votes
Provide support for native code and Win32/Win64 API
Status: completedNative Code has been supported from Day 1 with AllowExecutionOfNativeCode (Full Trust)
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16 votes
Windows Azure should support classic ASP
Hi
In my opinion Windows Azure should support classic ASP Web applications too.
Status: completedThis is supported with Startup Tasks as explained in Cloud Cover link that Cory provided below
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911 votes
Provide the ability to send Emails right from Azure
Ability to send Emails right from Azure (all roles).
Status: completedThere are at least three ways to enable e-mail for your Azure applications:
1.Using a custom on-premise Email Forwarder Service.
2. Using Email Server's Web Services APIs
3.Using a third party SMTP Service
All are described in more depth here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/08/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-1-of-2.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
Please help us understand what scenarios (if any) these patterns don't address for your applications.
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47 votes
Offer a more scalable pricing model and increased storage capacity specifically for SQL Azure
10gb is too little for many applications, especially in multi-tenant scenarios. Going beyond 10gb currently requires a lot of work moving things around to partition one database into two or more. Adding additional partitions as the application grows becomes even more painful. Also, at $100/mo for 10gb, you're in a… more
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255 votes
Streaming would be great with IIS Smooth Streaming
Status: completedSteve Marx just posted a great overview about how to use Windows Azure Blobs and the Windows Azure CDN to deliver adaptive streaming video content in a format compatible with Silverlight's
Smooth Streaming player.http://blog.smarx.com/posts/smooth-streaming-with-windows-azure-blobs-and-cdn
For those of you unfamiliar with Smooth Streaming, he also explains what it is and how it works and points to a great article, "Smooth Streaming Technical Overview" by Alex Zambelli for an even deeper dive.
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/626/smooth-streaming-technical-overview/
You can get all the details in Steve's blog post. If you want to dive right in and start hosting Smooth Streaming content in Windows Azure Blobs, check out the Adaptive Streaming for Windows Azure Blobs Uploader project on Code Gallery, a command-line tool and reusable library for hosting adaptive streaming videos in Windows Azure Blobs.
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147 votes
Dynamic IIS Compression Support
Status: completedChris is right, this is complete. Please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff436045(v=MSDN.10).aspx
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460 votes
Create a "beta" environment for .NET 4.0 tests and evaluation.
Status: completed>NET 4 framework is now available, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd573348.aspx.
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1 vote
proofread ...but feel free to add you [sic] own!
Mike,
You're in what role?
Status: completedThanks...
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4 votes
Include some base usage for development with MSDN subscription
MSDN subsription plans are designed to allow development and testing. While some Azure-like functionality is possible on the destop, some, like blobs over 2GB is not.
Status: completedAnnounced the details of this at PDC '09. For more information please visit, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx. If you have feedback on this offer, please let me know.
Thanks - Mike
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58 votes
Provide a dashboard to show SLA/Availability Info
Provide a dashboard to show SLA/Availability Info
Status: completedSee my comment below for link to dashboard.
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2 votes
cdn Content Distribution Network
Have a CDN feature to Azure so that micro content from the cloud is local to everyone
