Microsoft and Canonical Make Custom Linux Kernel (neowin.net)

Billly Gates writes: Microsoft and Canonical's relationship is getting closer besides Ubuntu for Windows. Azure will soon be offering more customized Ubuntu containers with a MS optimized kernel. Uname -r will show 4.11.0-1011-azure for Ubuntu cloud based 16.04 LTS. If you want the non MS kernel you can still use it on Azure by typing:
$ sudo apt install linux-virtual linux-cloud-tools-virtual
$ sudo apt purge linux*azure
$ sudo reboot
The article mentions several benefits over the generic Linux kernel for Azure

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Re:FTFY

[MrKaos]

Some of us actually work in the real world, where Windows is the Gold Standard and is usually a requirement for certain business software packages.

The gold standard for business computing *IS* Linux based systems, the game was over for windows in this space years ago. MicroSoft lost all credibility in data centres around 20 years ago when NT screensavers would activate on headless servers and consume most of the CPU time of the system. It took MS until Win Server 2012 to have a decent file system and NT could only pass C2 (Orange Book) security standards when you refrained from plugging it into a network.

Azure is barely a player compared to the GCC compiled versions of Xen which is run AWS, you know, Amazon's platform and even commercial offerings like VMware, which trounce Azure for functionality are based on Linux.

Windows is a desktop operating system and even there it is becoming less relevant e.v.e.r.y.d.a.y and the only business software you are talking about is for small business, which, in itself is a massive market but constantly being eroded by new web offerings. So the only markets left for Microfost are platform owners who they can convince to use .Net which generally ends up with upwards of double the TCO of a software stack hosted on a Linux server. MS would practically fellate you to take on their stack. Do you even vaguely know what you are talking about Mr AC?

What you *don't* get, that Microsoft *does* get is that Open Source Software isn't going away. It is a fait acompli.

Not everyone is sitting home playing Tux Racer and writing GCC code.

Maybe they are playing GTA on their windows machine? Games are a massive market for Microsift and whilst there is no reason for them to go away it is inevitable that widows transforms to a Linux machine. The writing has been on the wall for a long time and MS has been taking baby steps towards it because the rest of the technology industry has moved on and they want to survive.