Linux Now Dominates Azure (zdnet.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure, Microsoft's cloud program, said, "One in four [Azure] instances are Linux." Then, in 2017, it was 40 percent Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux. Today, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, said in an interview, "Slightly over half of Azure VMs are Linux. That's right. Microsoft's prize cloud, Linux, not Windows Server, is now the most popular operating system. Windows Server isn't going to be making a come back. Every month, Linux goes up," Guthrie said. And it's not just Azure users who are turning to Linux.

"Native Azure services are often running on Linux," Guthrie added. "Microsoft is building more of these services. For example, Azure's Software Defined Network (SDN) is based on Linux." It's not just on Azure that Microsoft is embracing Linux. "Look at our simultaneous release of SQL Server on Linux. All of our projects now run on Linux," Guthrie said.

Comments

If only

[Anonymous Coward]

If only Windows Server OS was free as in beer. Its cost is a barrier to entry for those wanting to learn it, and develop on it.

What's after "Embrace, extend"?

[davidwr]

Remind me again, I forgot.

Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product

[toadlife]

And, of course, you can script literally anything in Linux. You can't in Windows.

Absolute nonsense.

Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product

[drinkypoo]

I always read that Microsoft had a policy of using its Own software, so the staff could easily identify bugs & bad user interfaces (and improve them). Maybe they've abandoned that philosophy.

The problem is that Windows' networking is poop. Linux, on the other hand, has AFAICT the fastest and most capable networking stack of any full-fledged OS on the planet outside of FreeBSD... and have you ever dealt with BSD users? I'd rather take a performance hit.

Re:I'm surprised they're using outside product

[drinkypoo]

and have you ever dealt with BSD users? I'd rather take a performance hit.

*sadface*

I literally got into Linux because the FreeBSD users I knew were ever so much more RTFMish than the Linux users. At the time, just getting BSD installed was a PITA, and mind you, I was a SunOS4 sysadmin and SunOS4 was BSD based. Sun's documentation was worlds ahead of that of FreeBSD, whereas with Linux I didn't even need documentation.