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Two Years Later, Still no Windows Server on ARM in Microsoft Azure

posted by martyb on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the implementation-cost-an-ARM-*and*-a-leg? dept.

jas writes:

Windows Server on ARM was announced to much fanfare in March 2017, with servers powered by Qualcomm Centriq 2400 and Cavium ThunderX2 processors co-developed with Microsoft showcased at the OCP US Summit. At the time, Azure vice president Jason Zander told Bloomberg that "this is a significant commitment on behalf of Microsoft. We wouldn't even bring something to a conference if we didn't think this was a committed project and something that's part of our road map."

That road map has quite clearly hit a dead end—a lack of updates from Microsoft of the subject, and the absence of any partners involved with the project (or companies in the ARM-for-servers market generally) at this year's Microsoft Inspire conference strongly indicates the initiative is dead.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/2-years-later-theres-still-no-windows-server-arm-in-microsoft-azure/

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Thursday July 18 2019, @11:00PM (5 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday July 18 2019, @11:00PM (#868727) Journal

    either it isn't any good, or there is no market, and when has MS refused to sell something, even if it sucks?

    Therefore, there must be no market.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Friday July 19 2019, @12:18AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 19 2019, @12:18AM (#868750) Journal

    Therefore, there must be no market.

    When everything is in the cloud and what you have/need, as a customer, is a bunch of API to interact with your "apps"**, do you really care if they are running on Xeon, I9, AMD or ARM?
    The choice of supporting ARM or not is mostly a problem for the cloud-provider - e.g. can *they* drive their cost of "clouding" down and offer cheaper service tiers?

    ** most of the Azure is SaaS and storage, I doubt anyone in their full mind would choose to "compute" on Windows.

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    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:59AM (#868804)

      do you really care if they are running on Xeon, I9, AMD or ARM?

      I suppose that depends on which side channel attacks you want to be vulnerable to.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @06:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @06:03AM (#868852)

    Maybe there are no decent server class machines they can put in their machine rooms?

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 19 2019, @03:21PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 19 2019, @03:21PM (#869005) Journal

      Maybe there are, but nobody wants Windows on a server.

      Have you even seen Windows Server 2016?

      I used Windows Server 2008r2. Then Windows Server 2012, which was noticeably slower. Then Windows Server 2016 which is much more noticeably slower. And does almost constant updates. And those updates take much longer than before.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 19 2019, @03:19PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 19 2019, @03:19PM (#869003) Journal

    when has MS refused to sell something, even if it sucks?

    I'll have you know that Microsoft has standards. They will absolutely not sell anything unless they are sure beyond all doubt that it sucks.

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