Is this a real representation of how many computers run Linux vs. Microsoft now?
Microsoft Developer @msdevUK: Did you know that 40% of #VirtualMachines in #Azure are running #Linux? #FutureDecoded #Dev
That stat is courtesy of a tweet on Oct. 31 from the Microsoft Developer UK account. The tweet, hashtagged as #FutureDecoded, seemingly is connected to information that Microsoft officials shared at the company's conference in London today.
Community Manager Brian Byrne (@BrianLinuxing) retweeted the Microsoft Developer UK tweet, adding: "Only 40%? Come on! Its more than that:)."
Previously, the most recent stat on how many VMs in Azure are running Linux dates back to June 2016, when Microsoft officials said nearly one in three Azure virtual machines were running Linux.
Or are companies and developers using Azure to test the Linux waters?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday November 05 2017, @01:58AM (1 child)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @10:09PM
"If 40% of the most anti-linux company's hosts are linux, and all of their competitors are mostly linux, then that's not an insult at all."
Microsoft is now well beyond the point it was when Ballmer said "Linux is a cancer"; they realized an open war was impossible to win therefore they changed their tactics since. Now they're embracing and extending Linux with their own code (example: WSL), which will one day be magically required to run all "Linux" software written by them and by all developers working on Windows machines. In other words, Linux is going to become a Microsoft product.
To get an idea, think about developers using Linux machines to write Windows software which wouldn't work under native Windows but requires to be run only under Linux/WINE. Microsoft is probably going to do the exact opposite.