Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand

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Post by madaxe_again » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 4:36 PM UTC

wantab wrote: post #205

madaxe_again wrote: post #195

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You may not consciously notice, but you sure as shit do. I've got some lovely scatter plots sampled across billions of user sessions that show that average page load time in a session has a direct inverse correlation with conversion rate. Humans are impatient to the core.

Millisecond differences? No you don't.

Over a population, statistically? Yeah, you do.

Re: Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand

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Post by rjbwork » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

MichaelGG wrote: post #204

rjbwork wrote: post #184

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We are a SaaS startup using exclusively Azure. Minus the complete lack of a data warehousing/OLAP service, it's great!

Have you compared the cost of your compute/VMs to Google Compute Engine? When I did, Azure was literally double the cost. And it has useful SSD options which Azure doesn't yet have. But Azure is a fairly cool product overall.

Azure does actually have SSD options for both VMs and Storage Accounts now.

Re: Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand

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Post by rjbwork » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 7:29 PM UTC

MichaelGG wrote: post #204

rjbwork wrote: post #184

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We are a SaaS startup using exclusively Azure. Minus the complete lack of a data warehousing/OLAP service, it's great!

Have you compared the cost of your compute/VMs to Google Compute Engine? When I did, Azure was literally double the cost. And it has useful SSD options which Azure doesn't yet have. But Azure is a fairly cool product overall.

Also, no, we haven't. They don't provide native .NET, like Microsoft (obviously), access to all of their services. Azure's pretty much the only option for infrastructure-less .NET at the moment.