Cloud and infrastructure
Microsoft Azure
3.1× since 2022azure.microsoft.com · 3,435 posts · 3.1M words · Nov 2009 to Sep 2026
169 of 203 months in that span carried a post, 34 none. 26 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
4.08
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
1.32
Em dashes counted
5,099
Posts with at least one
37%
Em dashes per post
Monthly0.78
12-month average5.32
Microsoft Azure, latest month in the corpusBy year
En dashes are counted alongside as a control: if em dashes climb while en dashes hold flat, that is a change in writing style rather than a change in typography.
| Year | Posts | Em dashes | Per 1k words | En per 1k | Share of posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 70 | 337 | 3.67 | 0.48 | 74% |
| 2025 | 128 | 903 | 5.94 | 0.34 | 89% |
| 2024 | 160 | 576 | 2.86 | 0.25 | 86% |
| 2023 | 192 | 594 | 2.62 | 0.30 | 73% |
| 2022 | 211 | 564 | 2.70 | 0.47 | 76% |
| 2021 | 235 | 633 | 2.89 | 0.30 | 71% |
| 2020 | 314 | 672 | 2.17 | 0.49 | 54% |
| 2019 | 657 | 364 | 0.65 | 1.53 | 22% |
| 2018 | 672 | 246 | 0.43 | 3.44 | 15% |
| 2017 | 345 | 63 | 0.25 | 2.49 | 10% |
| 2016 | 211 | 72 | 0.51 | 2.21 | 13% |
| 2015 | 137 | 56 | 0.58 | 1.83 | 15% |
| 2014 | 75 | 13 | 0.16 | 1.76 | 11% |
| 2013 | 11 | 1 | 0.09 | 1.56 | 9% |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 | 0.42 | 1.04 | 33% |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 5.45 | 0% |
| 2010 | 10 | 3 | 0.36 | 1.90 | 20% |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |