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Microsoft used to only lose money from people choosing Linux instead of Windows. Now the fastest growing part of their business is Azure servers. 40% of them an
by ewzimm 10y ago
Microsoft used to only lose money from people choosing Linux instead of Windows. Now the fastest growing part of their business is Azure servers. 40% of them and growing are Linux. Their CEO is from the Azure branch of the company, the platform-agnostic part. More and more, Microsoft is going to rely on Linux servers and Android phones as their profit centers. Instead of hurting their business, it's helping them.
- cestith 10y agoIt almost sounds as if Microsoft is the next IBM. Rather than crush everyone else, they're finding out it's very profitable to service everyone else's hardware and software. At the same time, though, Microsoft is selling Surface bundled with its OS despite overall market declines in new laptops. I'd bet the likes of Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, HP, and Toshiba aren't very happy about that sort of encroachment from a vendor upon whom they've come to depend. They advertise it against the Macbook using largely features a tablet or phone has, but many of their customers' laptops are also touchscreen and lightweight. They've set themselves up as a game publisher alongside the people to whom they used to just sell OSes and developers' tools. Don't they even have a couple in-house development studios for games? So now you buy your X-Box, your Windows, your Visual Studio, and your X-Box SDK then write your game and give Microsoft a cut to sit on a shelf next to content of theirs. SQL Server on Linux might interfere some with Oracle and IBM's DB/2. It's also likely to try to take share away from Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. There are lots of extensions to SQL Server already. Don't be surprised if they after a few years they make it really easy to come from other DBMSes but hard to leave.