Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server

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Post by CrankyBear » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server
zdnet.com

Re: Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server

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Post by 0x1d7 » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

Author doesn't understand that Azure services are run on top of Windows Server...

Re: Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 4:59 PM UTC

0x1d7 wrote: post #2

Author doesn't understand that Azure services are run on top of Windows Server...

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Re: Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server

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Post by johnathan101 » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

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Re: Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server

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Post by SupLockDef » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 6:14 PM UTC

0x1d7 wrote: post #2

Author doesn't understand that Azure services are run on top of Windows Server...

Did you mean Azure Host OS?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsosplatform/a...

Re: Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 8:06 PM UTC

johnathan101 wrote: post #4

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It is clear that UNIX won the server room, and the current form most people use of it is Linux, because POSIX ends up being a bit meh.

Additionally, it is a kind of phyrric victory, because when using cloud services with managed containers, the underlying OS isn't that much relevant, unless using languages like C and C++, without rich runtimes that abstract the OS.