It's happened: Microsoft Moves Scott Gu to Head Up Azure

Let's hope this doesn't affect the direction of the .net platform. There's been a lot of great change lately with more open source work, smaller and more frequent revisions in platforms such as MVC. I'd hate to see it fall to the wayside.

Scott Gu is really respected around the company. I'm sure this will be viewed very positively from within. His rise through the ranks is pretty unparalleled in a corp like Microsoft.

First thought: <i>Oh crap what will happen to the great work he's been doing in the .Net tools?</i><p>Second thought: <i>Oh wow, he could actually do great things for the Azure developer experience!</i>

Fantastic! Like others have mentioned, he has done some great work in the past and I hope the momentum he created doesn't slow down.<p>But, I have to admit that I am very excited to see Scott moving to Azure. We're a .Net based startup running on Azure and I feel that the product and community could really use his help!

I love Scott and this is great. The title is incorrect though - Scott is only running one part of Windows Azure ( the linked article makes it clearer)