3 ms·

Is this really realistic ? Why would Microsoft get into the Linux Enterprise market?

• thesuperbigfrog 4y ago
  >> Why would Microsoft get into the Linux Enterprise market? Azure integration
  • jacooper 4y ago
    They can do that without buying canonical surely?
• denkmoon 4y ago
  Developers Developers Developers Same reason they brought MSSQL to Linux.
• encryptluks2 4y ago
  Because the same reason they have already tried with WSL... They are losing too many developers.
  • mickael-kerjean 4y ago
    WSL on my office laptop takes 10s to boot and if you CTRL+C before it gives the prompt it shows a python stacktrace. I can only hope that by the time the people who have only ever used windows retire, windows will become as relevant as what cobol is today which is probably an insult to cobol as it's not known to make blue death screen on ATM and airport screen
    • borissk 4y ago
      As everyone else you're living in a bubble. In your bubble people probably do hate Windows. Given HN origin in the Silicon Valley - where macOS and Linux are very popular - probably the majority of HN users also hate Windows. But that doesn't say anything about the majority of the developers out there. From my experience Python and Ruby guys usually do use Linux and macOS, while .NET and Java devs run almost always Windows on their PCs and laptops.
      • BeefWellington 4y ago
        The overwhelming majority of developers I interact with these days are on MacOS, and it's not even close. Probably a 80-20 MacOS to Windows ratio. I'm not in Silicon Valley, and I work with people from lots of different companies. Every company that offers the option for devs to have a Macbook, that seems to be what the "average" dev is choosing for a while now. This is obviously an anecdotal sample size but I'm looking at a group of about 30 companies over the past year ranging in size from < 15 employees to up to 500, and everything in between. M1 has made a lot of people eager to jump too.
        • encryptluks2 4y ago
          Same... a lot of it has to do with just the convenience of Mac shell being more native than the janky WSL implementation that does take time to startup and is noticeable, and not having to worry about a translation layer for volumes.
        • borissk 4y ago
          Ask a C#/.NET and he'll tell you 90% of the developers he knows use Windows laptops (the real Visual Studio works only under Windows). There are more than 10M professional .NET developers out there.
• brundolf 4y ago
  Microsoft is no longer about Windows, it's about being wherever you are, especially if you're a developer
  • beebmam 4y ago
    It's been this way for like at least 6 years now. And it's quite comfy. WSL and Windows gives me everything I could want from a dev machine.
    • jack_pp 4y ago
      You should try tiling WMs
      • naikrovek 4y ago
        Windows 11 has one built in. it's not as flexible as i3 or the custom tool I use, but it's a heck of a lot easier to use.
      • ChuckNorris89 4y ago
        Tried them and hated them. The built in tiling capabilities in Windows 11 are enough for me.
• deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
• p_l 4y ago
  Microsoft actually bought a Gentoo based distro in container space - Flatcar Linux (which is a direct continuation of CoreOS that was bought and killed by RedHat)
• GoOnThenDoTell 4y ago
  Money. Cant have Azure without a lot of Linux
• pjmlp 4y ago
  Because Azure is the new OS, and for better or worse, UNIX was won the server room wars, with Linux being the most used variant nowadays. However with containers running directly on top of hypervisors and serverless, it is only a matter of time until the actuall OS of the server room is irrelevant. Until then, Linux and BSD (which they also support) are business relevant.
  • jacooper 4y ago
    But I mean they dont have to have their own distro?