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Microsoft: Nearly One In Three Azure Virtual Machines Now Are Running Linux (zdnet.com)
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.
It's not 1994, you can stop hating MS now.
No thanks, we still know they're just as evil as Google.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
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.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
>> "Microsoft's self-professed Linux love"
Say what? Is this like Donald Trump's self-professed love of Mexicans?
I wonder when Microsoft will start the forced upgrade of those VMs to Windows 10? :)
> 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.
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Only a complete fucking idiot would trust Microshaft with anything other then what is in their best interest.
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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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:
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?
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.
I don't think I have laughed so much for years.