Linux Usage on Azure Has Surpassed Windows, Microsoft Developer Reveals

'Three and a half years ago, Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, Microsoft's
cloud, said, "One in four [Azure] instances are Linux." Next, in 2017,
Microsoft revealed that 40% of Azure virtual machines (VM) were
Linux-based. Then in the fall of 2018, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's
executive VP of the cloud and enterprise group, told me in an
exclusive interview, "About half Azure VMs are Linux". Now, Sasha
Levin, Microsoft Linux kernel developer, in a request that Microsoft
be allowed to join a Linux security list, revealed that "the Linux
usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows." Shocking you say? Not
really. Linux is largely what runs enterprise computing both on
in-house servers and on the cloud. Windows Server has been declining
for years. In the most recent IDC Worldwide Operating Systems and
Subsystems Market Shares report covering 2017, Linux had 68% of the
market. Its share has only increased since then.'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/07/01/1333252

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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