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Microsoft: Nearly One In Three Azure Virtual Machines Now Are Running Linux (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the microsoft-loves-linux dept.

Mary Jo Foley, reporting for ZDNet: Microsoft's self-professed Linux love is helping the company in the cloud. During his keynote at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich showed off some of the new and upcoming ways Microsoft is adding more container support to its cloud and server products. He also revealed a couple of new interesting datapoints. In the past year, Russinovich said, Microsoft has gone from one in four of its Azure virtual machines running Linux to nearly one in three. The other two-thirds of Azure customers are running Windows Server in their virtual machines. Russinovich showed off the promised Windows Server support that officials said would be coming at some point to the company's Azure Container Service (ACS). Microsoft made Azure Container Service generally available in April 2016, but for Linux containers only. Last year, company execs said Microsoft also would bring Windows Server support to ACS.

52 comments

  1. Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by williamyf · · Score: 1, Funny

    'Nuff Said!

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    1. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's not 1994, you can stop hating MS now.

      No thanks, we still know they're just as evil as Google.

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    2. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ballmer, is that you?

    3. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by QuietLagoon · · Score: 1

      Why 2/3s? 10% is usually considered to be the tipping point where marketshare gains momentum. Regardless, it is the growth rate, rather than the milestone reached, that is important at this point.

    4. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 3, Insightful

      > You know what friend? It's not 1994, you can stop hating MS now.

      Then why do I have to put up with Microshit's undocumented telemetry crap in Microsoft Visual C 2015 ? This bullshit shenanigans are _exactly_ why I hate M$. It should be opt in, NOT opt out.

      * https://www.google.com/webhp?#...

      Only a complete fucking idiot would trust Microshaft with anything other then what is in their best interest.

    5. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by PCM2 · · Score: 1

      You obviously don't "put up" with it because you don't even know the name of the product. And in this case, it's an unreleased product with a bug in it.

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    6. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by zlives · · Score: 1

      i think it doesn;t matter what product, mostly just the brand signifies the trend.

    7. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by Merk42 · · Score: 1

      Why 2/3s?.

      Because by that point the whiners will demand 3/4 as a constantly moving goal post because M$ can do no right.

    8. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by Nunya666 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You know what friend? It's not 1994, you can stop hating MS now.

      I disagree. Windows 8 and 10 warrant even more hate for MS, not less.

      Shoving Windows 10 down our throats when we already have legitimate, paid-for, still-supported licenses of Windows 7 warrants even more hate for MS, not less.

      Sneakily upgrading existing clients to Windows 10, which then bricks older hardware, warrants even more hate for MS, not less.

      Hiding Windows 10 upgrades within Windows Updates, which then causes users to disable Windows Updates to avoid Win10, warrants even more hate for MS, not less.

      Arstechnica says "Microsoft has no plans to tell us what's in Windows patches." Again, this warrants even more hate for MS, not less.

      I could go on, but I think I've made my point.

    9. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by dbIII · · Score: 2

      I live in the real world, and that world relies on Active Directory

      I don't think I have laughed so much for years.

    10. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is documented. You are just too fucking stupid to Google it. Spread your FUD elsewhere.

    11. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1

      > It is documented.

      And the source for Telemetry.cpp are where again? Because they aren't in crt/src/vcruntime/vcruntime_internal.h

      //
      // Telemetry
      //
      // Telemetry: Invoked when the exe/dll are invoked. There are two different
      // implementations in telemetry.cpp and telemetrydefault.cpp. Because GetModuleFileName
      // is not available for Store apps, we return an empty string in telemetrydefault.cpp
      // when invoked by store apps. For the desktop in telemetry.cpp, it returns the name
      // of the module which invokes main/dll. This method is also responsible for firing the
      // events associated with Tracelogging. This will help with runtime telemetry for analysis.
      void __cdecl __telemetry_main_invoke_trigger(const HINSTANCE instance);
       
      // Telemetry: Invoked when the exe/dll are shutdown. There are two different
      // implementations in telemetry.cpp and telemetrydefault.cpp. This method is
      // responsible for firing the events associated with Tracelogging. This will
      // help with runtime telemetry for analysis.
      void __cdecl __telemetry_main_return_trigger(const HINSTANCE instance);

      Yeah, yeah, I shouldn't feed arrogant cunts.

    12. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by haruchai · · Score: 1

      I'm more concerned with the way they force or trick users into upgrading to Windows 10. I have to rebuild a PC for a friend whose Win 8.2 Inspiron that she uses for her small business got trashed by Windows 10 after she tried multiple times to cancel out of it.

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    13. Re:Wake me up when 2/3s are Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Look. You paid for Windows 7.
      With Windows 10, Microshove has to do it because no one will buy Windows 10.

      Its just not comparable!

  2. THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE MICROSOFT CLOUDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1


     

  3. Congrats MS/Dr. Mark (penguins too)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    See subject: You're probably going to make more than a few of the 'penguins' around here pretty happy - ala 'gloating' rights & what have you!

    * :)
    ( Whatever works for you + MS I suppose... a job well done's a job well done, no arguing w/ success!)

    APK

    P.S.=> I do find it astounding you went this direction & I personally suspect that the MAIN REASON Linux does a better job of being a server in these capacities is UNIX-style "GLOBAL" memory mgt. vs. Windows per-process model... apk

    1. Re:Congrats MS/Dr. Mark (penguins too)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I personally suspect that the MAIN REASON Linux does a better job of being a server in these capacities is UNIX-style "GLOBAL" memory mgt. vs. Windows per-process model...

      You're an idiot. Stick with your VB front-end hosts file editor.

  4. What a jump! by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 0

    Wow. One in four to nearly one in three. So that's, what, a jump from 25% to 30%? At this rate, it will be all Linux by 2030.

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    1. Re:What a jump! by ranton · · Score: 3, Informative

      Wow. One in four to nearly one in three. So that's, what, a jump from 25% to 30%? At this rate, it will be all Linux by 2030.

      You think a 32% increase in a single year is a small thing? If it kept growing at this rate (which it won't) you would be looking at 100% Linux in only four years.

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  5. Three Cheers For Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Microsoft solutions are so good they can even run that kobbeled together linsux bloat ware.

    1. Re:Three Cheers For Microsoft by eneville · · Score: 1

      By Microsoft solution, do you mean a cloud that uses Linux as the host?

      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

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    2. Re:Three Cheers For Microsoft by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0

      I can't tell from your comment if you're stupid or disingenuous.

      Your link refers to SDN infrastructure. Microsoft, of course, uses a heavily customized version of Hyper-V as their hosts, you nimrod.

  6. Microsoft's self-professed Linux love by sunderland56 · · Score: 3, Funny

    >> "Microsoft's self-professed Linux love"

    Say what? Is this like Donald Trump's self-professed love of Mexicans?

    1. Re:Microsoft's self-professed Linux love by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Trump likes legal Mexicans that pay taxes and Microsoft likes Linux on their infrastructure where they can spy on it and charge for it.

      Good analogy

  7. That's because Microsoft is full of LUDDITES. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Modern app appers know that ONLY apps can app apps, so the LUDDITES at Microsoft are ruining Azure by using LUDDITE Linux instead of an appy apperating app like Appdows 10!

    Apps!

    1. Re:That's because Microsoft is full of LUDDITES. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Moo.

  8. Re:THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE MICROSOFT CLOU by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

    This is the year of the Microsoft Linux desktop

  9. Upgrade to Windows 10... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 2

    I wonder when Microsoft will start the forced upgrade of those VMs to Windows 10? :)

    1. Re:Upgrade to Windows 10... by tehlinux · · Score: 1

      Hopefully someone will port GWX Control Panel to linux before that happens!

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    2. Re:Upgrade to Windows 10... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Isn't that in SystemD already?

    3. Re:Upgrade to Windows 10... by zlives · · Score: 1

      that feature is not needed in azure because... all your datas are belong to the hypervisor.

    4. Re:Upgrade to Windows 10... by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 1

      Isn't that in SystemD already?

      On Microsoft Linux, it's svchost.exeD

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  10. GPL Rewrite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The GPL should be re-written so that greedy corporations like Microsoft are prohibited from profiting from Open Source software.

    Years ago, Linux was forced to rename "X Windows" to "X Window" because Microsoft didn't like it. I mean, really.

    And yet Microsoft uses something called "Direct X".

    1. Re:GPL Rewrite by cfalcon · · Score: 1

      I'm pretty sure it was Microwindows that they came down on. I don't recall the X Window System ever being officially called "X Windows", though, of course, everyone calls it that. Feel free to cite to the contrary ofc.

    2. Re:GPL Rewrite by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 2

      Years ago, Linux was forced to rename "X Windows" to "X Window" because Microsoft didn't like it.

      What rot. Why would Linux be forced to rename another team's project? And Mac OS X also has an X in the name. If Microsoft are going to claim both the word Windows and X, why wasn't Linux also forced to rename OS X?

      But seriously, X Windows has never been the correct name. From a newsgroup post in 1993:

      The X Consortium requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:

      X
      X Window System
      X Version 11
      X Window System, Version 11
      X11

      There is no such thing as "X Windows" or "X Window", despite the repeated misuse of the forms by the trade rags. This probably tells you something about how much to trust the trade rags -- if they can't even get the NAME of the window system right, why should one trust anything else they have to say?

      So it was never X Windows, Microsoft never asked them to change, and there is no space in the name DirectX. Did you post get anything right?

  11. SQL Server on Linux by tcopeland · · Score: 2

    So he demo'd SQL Server:

    > Russinovich also showed off a preview of SQL Server on Linux

    But, interesting, seems like the Linux version is missing some features.

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    1. Re:SQL Server on Linux by Kjella · · Score: 1

      But, interesting, seems like the Linux version is missing some features.

      Well, I do hope they'll get all the core services - SSIS, SSAS, SSRS to run not just the SQL database. I don't care about the administration/development tools, if you need a Windows box to work with it that's fine but if you can't run your import/export jobs, cubes and reports it's a bit of a lame duck, if all your data goes in/out via SQL queries and that's the only part you use there are many perfectly good replacements.

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  12. Re:Grammar nitpick by cfalcon · · Score: 1

    No, the headline is correct. "Machines" is plural noun, pairs with plural verb "are".

    "One in three" is as singular as .333 is as singular as one thousand- not at all.

  13. Re:THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE MICROSOFT CLOU by bondsbw · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is. The next big update to Windows 10, currently in preview, now runs Ubuntu directly on top of the Windows kernel (no virtualization, recompile, Cygwin, etc.).

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  14. Subject-verb agreement, anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The art of coordinating the subjects and verbs seems to be a dying one.

  15. This is the only route to make Linux spyware. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Of course Microsoft uses Linux. It is way way wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better.

    FreeBSD is and will always be truly awesome though.
    https://www.freebsd.org/ports/categories-grouped.html

    Free and religiously void of spyware.
    https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/

  16. Re:THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE MICROSOFT CLOU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No. It runs a minimal VM with a linux kernel, and launches containers from that.

  17. Re: Grammar nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The collection is understood as a bunch of things rather than as a single group. That's why it's plural. The noun itself doesn't count. Flock of seagulls.

  18. Re:THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE MICROSOFT CLOU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No, it doesn't. There's no VM at all - it's really a re-awakening of the NT subsystem technology. (NT has supported many subsystems from day one; of which Win32 was only one of the subsystems. Over time, the need for the OS/2 or the hardly used POSIX subsystems has petered out, and 64bit was done by moving the 'win32' subsystem to 64 bit rather than two separate subsystems; so the overwhelming majority of NT installations purely run the Win32 subsystem.)

    Windows 10 is just, really, the latest version of NT. The difference is usually immaterial; except when occasionally discussing NT Kernel vs Win32; which we're doing here.

    There is no Linux kernel, it is actually an emulation of the Linux Kernel ABI (syscall interface). There's no vlinux being loaded here? In fact that page explicitly states, "emulate the Linux kernel."

    (Trivia; there are a handful of 'native NT' applications too; that run purely against the NT API. This includes subsystems themselves; the registry (I think); file systems; and most user-visible, AUTOCHK, the program that checks disc integrity at boot; and others.)

  19. Re:THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE MICROSOFT CLOU by sabbede · · Score: 1

    I've been wondering about this... Regardless of how exactly it works (though I am interested) it's pretty dang cool.

  20. That's what Russinovich is doing now? by sabbede · · Score: 1

    He's one of the few people I can point to and say, "he made my life easier." Thank you for SysInternals Mark!

  21. Doing My Part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just used to Company's MSDN subscription to spin up a FreeBSD VM

  22. You're an idiot (w/ proof) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: It's Object Pascal/Delphi & it's known to rival C++ for performance & abilities - so much for YOUR 'know how' (or rather, lack thereof, bigmouth).

    * :)

    (Imbeciles abound - you're also proof of that too, lol!)

    On the note of what YOU quoted from me?

    I'm addressing the 'horses mouth' on it in fact - Dr. Mark has practically SORT OF "written the book" on it in Windows NT/Windows IT Pro magazine & I read it YEARS ago on exactly what YOU quoted from me... which of course, a "genius" (lol, not) like YOU has NO COMPREHENSION of these areas whatsoever apparently (look @ your "dolt-level" reply, lmao!).

    Nice to see you had to TRY 'downmod hide' the last time I posted this reply too, further prooving you're an idiot making mistakes https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

    APK

    P.S.=> Dolts like you can try "piss on my parade" all you like, but, know what? I shit ALL over YOU easily by saying PROVE ME WRONG!

    None of "your kind" ever, EVER have or will... & you KNOW it (You online "ne'er-do-well" trolls that accomplish squat, either hiding behind FAKE NAMES ONLINE as you've nothing yourself to stand up for unlike myself OR trolling by unidentifiable ac posts like yours now)... apk