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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."
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.