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Microsoft is a cloud provider and mobile is king. This whole Windows vs. Linux competition for desktop is very old thinking. Microsoft makes money providing L

Microsoft is a cloud provider and mobile is king. This whole Windows vs. Linux competition for desktop is very old thinking. Microsoft makes money providing Linux servers, so they support Linux. It's pretty simple.

afroboy 8y ago
True, people forgot that 40% of Azure VMs are running Linux.
- oaiey 8y ago
  Microsoft nowadays says something close to 50%. I guess the container technologies also change a lot in that space.
  - GordonS 8y ago
    Azure Kubernetes Service doesn't even support Windows containers yet - they launched only supporting Linux, with Windows supposedly coming later.