If anyone in this group knows anyone in the Azure Team, can you please pass my following message and advice on to them? ...
Dear Azure Team, For the love of suffering humanity, stop using the word IMPACT in your broadcast emails. The word is appearing more frequently and in more and more bizarre and ambiguous ways. In the most recent email (see below) you say "performance impact" three times, but does this mean "improve" or "degrade" performance? The expression is completely ambiguous. And what is an "impacted VM"? Did someone shoot projectiles into them? And most puzzling of all, what on earth is a "reduced impact availability"? It sounds like a line from a political comedy sketch. Never use the word impact figuratively, there is always a replacement word that is more accurate and expressive. *Greg Keogh* *[image: Inline images 1]*
