Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
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Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
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Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#2Even more telling, is Google Chrome is used as the browser in the demo video.
Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#3Even more telling, is Google Chrome is used as the browser in the demo video.
Well, you can't run IE on Ubuntu.
Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#4Even more telling, is Google Chrome is used as the browser in the demo video.
That's interesting. Since IE is not supported on Linux, that means Microsoft will have to support Chrome and perhaps Firefox on the Linux machines, and their engineers will have to use Chrome (if they are not using it already).
Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#5Why do I get the feeling that every article about MS is posted with the tone "Hey look guys, MS is doing something stoopid". The same tone seems to be missing when other tech companies are concerned.
Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#6Even more telling, is Google Chrome is used as the browser in the demo video.
Well, you can't run IE on Ubuntu.
Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#7In other words, Microsoft is not willing to sacrifice the Azure platform by digging their heads in the sand and pretending they are a server monopoly. Not allowing Linux is a major disadvantage even to Windows shops (Stack Overflow runs Redis on a Linux box, for instance).
I think this is fantastic news. AWS needs serious competition from industry titans. It doesn't matter if a startup charges half the price if it might not be around in a year or two. Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#8This is awesome. I was in talks with them at my former employer and we were very interested in what they had but badly needed to be able to at least deploy a mix of Windows and Linux boxes. At that time the sales person we were talking to said he did not foresee a future where they would support linux.
And before the fanboi's jump on me about Windows, you can't get every video/audio encoder on the planet on Linux so sometimes we had to deploy Windows and OSX boxes to get all the various encodes we needed for our distribution. Some of the code literally was 10+ years old and the original companies out of business.
Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#9I was under the impression that Azure only offered a platform-as-a-service, not infrastructure. Is that no longer the case? You can now run your own VMs and put whatever you want on it?
Re: Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
#10In other words, Microsoft is not willing to sacrifice the Azure platform by digging their heads in the sand and pretending they are a server monopoly. Not allowing Linux is a major disadvantage even to Windows shops (Stack Overflow runs Redis on a Linux box, for instance). I think this is fantastic news. AWS needs serious competition from industry titans. It doesn't matter if a startup charges half the price if it mi…
IMHO it shows me they're in it to win it and willing to bend to market forces and support what their customers want. To me that is the biggest message here.