Azure definitely has some hurdles to overcome still. I was actually down in Redmond visiting the Azure team a couple of months ago and both complained and learned a lot. It seems their original focus for almost a year was building corporate migration tools and features which I think really hurt them in the community. But thats because those big companies were large paying customers. There are a lot of features that are just now getting the attention they need. (Table Storage, Caching, etc) Hopefully with those issues resolved it will be more attractive to other companies and developers.
I think its funny that you bring up WPF/Sliverlight because I've been fairly against the technology in general and have avoided it whenever possible in my .Net career. I quickly fell in love with ASP.Net MVC and will stick with internet standards when possible.
I think its funny that you bring up WPF/Sliverlight because I've been fairly against the technology in general and have avoided it whenever possible in my .Net career. I quickly fell in love with ASP.Net MVC and will stick with internet standards when possible.