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

Posted by msmash on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:00AM 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.

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That's because Microsoft is full of LUDDITES. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-21 06:38 · 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!