Microsoft to ax Azure Video Analyzer in November

Microsoft's Azure Video Analyzer service is being put out to pasture, with its termination notice arriving less than a year after the preview was unveiled at the company's 2021 Build event. The shutters will be pulled down for good on November 30 and Microsoft has warned that from December 2 2022, "your Azure Video Analyzer …

[Terry 6]

It is unclear why Microsoft has retired the service.

Maybe the executive who was pushing for it got bored.

[Warm Braw]

Re: It is unclear why Microsoft has retired the service.

More likely, they'd just been hired from Google and hadn't yet been reprogrammed.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Maybe the executive who was pushing for it got bored.

Maybe he discovered that there is such a thing as a Category List on PornHub.

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe the executive who was pushing for it was pushing it to the wrong customers

and now M$ is trying to quietly erase their tracks before the regulators and watchdogs find some new skeletons to gnaw on.

[gwp3]

Axe

[M.V. Lipvig]

Just goes to show

why renting tech instead of buying it is bad. M$ got a few people to use it, they probably now depend upon it, but because not enough people use it M$ decided to cut it and now those who now rely on it are screwed. Had this been purchased, those that rely on it could have kept using it.