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We Need a Capped Plan for MSDN Azure Benefits by Ken Cox [MVP]

Like many developers, I’d like to play more with Windows Azure.  Microsoft recently improved the MSDN Azure benefits – extending them to MSDN Professional subscribers. The trouble is, the onus is on the subscriber to avoid hefty charges caused by...

I Owe $282.06 for Windows Azure Usage Charges on an MSDN Subscription by Ken Cox [MVP]

Since the launch of Windows Azure, I’ve been using my complimentary Microsoft MVP MSDN Premium subscription to play with Azure and enter some deployment contests. Unfortunately, I left up those trivial deployments and used 2,979 compute hours. That’s...
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Naughty Words at Azure’s cloudapp.net (NSFW in French) by Ken Cox [MVP]

I was configuring some Windows Azure sites today. When prompted for a globally unique public name for an account, I started playing with the Check Availability button. Not surprisingly, there’s a filter that bans the use of the common English-language...

Silverlight Streaming Beta Outage by Ken Cox [MVP]

My apologies to those unable to access my screencasts on building a Silverlight 2 data form. The Silverlight Streaming service has been flakey for the last few days and, as I write this, it is non-existent. Given that the service is free and still in...
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