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Microsoft has experienced a renaissance. By everything that we've seen coming out of Microsoft over the past few years, it feels like the company is really walking the walk. Instead of just talking about how it\u2019s innovative, it\u2019s demonstrating that. Microsoft has been on an amazing journey, making the progression from telling customers what they need to listening to them and responding by building what they ask for.\nToday, we\u2019re talking to Corey Sanders, Corporate Vice President of Azure Compute at Microsoft. \nSome of the highlights of the show include:\n\nCustomers are asking for Microsoft to help them through support and enabling platforms\nStorytelling efforts through advocates, who play a double role \u2013 engaging and defending Microsoft\nCustomers moving to the Cloud are focused on a continuum and progression; they have stuff to move from one location to another and want all the benefits\u2013better agility, faster startup time, etc.\nVirtual serial console into existing VMs; this is how people are using this and Microsoft is going to, if not encourage this behavior, at least support it\nMicrosoft is the only Cloud with a single-instance SLA\nSerial consoles: Windows' has seen less usage, partly due to operational aspects of Windows vs. Linux. It's not a GUI; it's scripting.\nDoes the operating system matter? From a Cloud perspective, it shouldn't have to matter; you should be able to deploy it the way you want\nEdge enables much more complex and segregated scenarios; that combination with cognitive searches running locally will make it accessible anywhere\nBranding challenge as customers start to notice that devices are smarter and more complex; will they lose awareness that Microsoft Azure is powering most of these things - they shouldn\u2019t care\nAn awareness of not just what's possible, but what's coming; the democratization of AI\nEducation and fear gap of trying something new and taking that first step; make products and services stupid and simple to use\nCustomers return to add cognitive services and AI capabilities to existing, running deployments, environments, and applications\nMulti-Cloud solutions can be successful, but there's a caveat; they\u2019re actually built on a service-by-service perspective\nAzure Stack, offers consistency, but some people may place blame on it for poor data center management practices; some expectations and regulations may be frustrating to some customers, but lets Microsoft offer a consistent experience\nFreedom and flexibility have been challenges for Microsoft and other products for private Clouds \nWhat people need to understand about Azure, including from a durability and reliability experience\nTo some extent, scale becomes a necessary prerequisite for some applications\nMicrosoft has taken many steps and is the leader in various areas\n\nLinks:\n\nReactiveOps\nMicrosoft Azure\nCorey Sanders on Twitter\nThe Robot Uprising Will Have Very Clean Floors\nKubernetes\nCassandra\nAzure Stack