Microsoft kills classic Azure DaaS, because it isn't really Azure Microsoft will deprecate the classic edition of its Azure Virtual Desktop desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and has given customers three years to keep using the service before they'll need to find an alternative. The software giant seems to have spent years trying to confuse cloudy DaaS users, as it has offered two products called …
You missed the lovely forest because you were so focused on the trees. It doesn't matter if there was literally a drop-in replacement and all companies had to do was click a radio button or something to make the switch, you're going to find a depressing number of them who will wait until the last second to even start on any validation testing they may need to do. I mean, we're already talking about a group of laggards who are using an ancient service.
No change there, then.
MS marketing's modus operandi for decades has been to use the same or very similar names for multiple different things, clearly more interested in leveraging the name recognition for PHB's than any confusion caused to those who actually have to use it.
Well, that and the equally confusing practice of giving multiple different names to the same thing every time they need a new marketing slant.
This appear to have got worse over the last decade, it actually makes me miss the Microsoft of old.
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