Microsoft To Run Linux On Azure

snydeq writes "After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m. EDT on Thursday. At that time, the Azure portal will offer a number of Linux distributions, including Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, OpenSuse 12.01, CentOS 6.2 and Canonical Ubuntu 12.04. Azure users will be able to choose and deploy a Linux distribution from the Microsoft Windows Azure Image Gallery and be charged on an hourly pay-as-you-go basis."

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Re:The LOL of the day, actually, a ROTFL

[starfishsystems]

Linux works fine for me as a desktop environment. I've used it in my consulting business for 14 years now, and worked at several places recently where it was the favored desktop among the technical staff.

Conversely, every time I have worked at a place where Windows was the standard desktop, it's been some ponderous old enterprise or government site, in other words a technical backwater.