About the Author

Neil Mackenzie has worked with computers for nearly three decades. He started by doing large-scale numerical simulations for scientific research and business planning. Since then, he has primarily been involved in healthcare software, developing electronic medical record systems. He has been using Windows Azure since PDC 2008, and has used nearly all parts of the Windows Azure platform—including those parts that no longer exist. Neil is very active in the online Windows Azure community, in particular, contributing to the MSDN Windows Azure Forums. He is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure.

Neil tweets as @mknz and blogs at http://convective.wordpress.com/