Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro

jbernardo writes: Microsoft has built a Linux distro, and is using it for their Azure data centers. From their blog post: "It is a cross-platform modular operating system for data center networking built on Linux." Apparently, the existing SDN (Software Defined Network) implementations didn't fit Microsoft's plans for the ACS (Azure Cloud Switch), so they decided to roll their own infrastructure. No explanation why they settled on Linux, though — could it be that there is no Windows variant that would fit the bill? In other news, Lucifer has been heard complaining of the sudden cold.

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SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid

[lesincompetent]

Science has indeed gone too far!

Re: MS uses what works

[Anonymous Coward]

I do not use MS Windows in my house either.

This proves Linux sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

The Total Cost of Ownership is so high, that only a company as rich as Microsoft can use it for their own business.

Re:Satan

[YrWrstNtmr]

No, Satan runs BeOSelbub.

Re:MS uses what works

[bug1]

No reason not to use Linux.

Except that its un-American, and causes cancer...

Re:MS uses what works

[spacepimp]

Also, doesn't this mean that they now have to sue themselves for the MS patents they are infringing by using Linux? I wonder if they have given themselves an NDA to find out what those infringements are finally?

Not MS's first Linux

[mschaffer]

This is not the first Linux released by Microsoft.
The first one was released in 2003. http://www.mslinux.org/
It was released under GPL (Gates Private License).

Do you blame them?

[Trailer Trash]

I mean, Linux is just full of their patented inventions - hell, they practically wrote the whole thing! They should use it, and proudly!

Blue Screen of Death

[jfdavis668]

The major change is adding the Blue Screen of Death, just to make everyone comfortable with using Linux.

Re:Satan

[Tx]

Linux? Pah! There's a reason why Microsoft owns WindowsPowersHell.org.

Systemd

[snookiex]

Cool. Now they will bundle Clippy into Systemd.

Re:Systemd

[halivar]

No, that's not Clippy, that's Grubby.

Re:MS uses what works

[FranTaylor]

They use OS X, too, in a few places

Microsoft is the #1 vendor of OSX software, which makes Microsoft the #1 vendor of BSD software.

Re:If it doesn't use systemd, I'd like to use it.

[Anonymous Coward]

We will never use use systemd. We have replaced it by svhost.exe (Microsoft insider).

Re:So not publically not eating your own dog food

[dwywit]

That reminds me of the story Frank Soltis ("father" of the AS400) told about one of IBM's customers. They ran AS400s for their distribution network. Then they decided to switch to Windows servers - and after 12 months or so, switched back to AS400s, because Windows just couldn't cut it.

The customer was Microsoft.

https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~ibc...