Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
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Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#2Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today.
As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#3Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today. As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
I doubt they would be larger than AWS, specially for Linux.
Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#4Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today. As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
Between Azure and WSL Microsoft might be shipping more Linux kernels than any other company out there.
Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#5Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today. As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
Between Azure and WSL Microsoft might be shipping more Linux kernels than any other company out there.
Do you think WSL counts if not enabled?
Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#650%?! That's surprisingly low.
Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#7Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today. As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
Between Azure and WSL Microsoft might be shipping more Linux kernels than any other company out there.
more than android? a year ago there were 2.5 billion active android devices, that's a bunch of linux kernels!
[edit] not to mention chromebooks and i would assume most of their consumer products (chromecasts, etc.)
Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#850%?! That's surprisingly low.
It is more that the percentage of workloads that are running Windows that are hosted on Azure (vs. GCP or Amazon) is very high.
Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Between Azure and WSL Microsoft might be shipping more Linux kernels than any other company out there.
Do you think WSL counts if not enabled?
Optional OS features are stored in WinSxS in case users decide to enable them, so technically they are shipping the Linux kernel with all recent pro/enterprise installs.
Re: Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
#10Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today. As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
AWS has roughly double the market shared. So it is very likely that they take that title.
https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-clou...