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I wonder if MSFT is subsidizing the cost? Either way it seems that market economics has now dictated that server operating systems are free as in beer.
by fool 15y ago
I wonder if MSFT is subsidizing the cost? Either way it seems that market economics has now dictated that server operating systems are free as in beer.
- tnuc 15y agoI doubt MSFT would subsidize the cost, they are competing with Azure.
- corin_ 15y agoThink about how they make money from Android while competiting with Windows Phone. They're clever enough to realise you can make money from multiple angles.
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- Maakuth 15y agoI'd imagine they'd prioritize lowering the barrier of creating .net webapps over Azure success. Azure is just one service but .net success is key part of their strategy.
- mikerg87 15y agoYou can get a free 3-month trial of Azure: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/ http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/ or if you get into the bizspark program you can get a much larger endowment from MS http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/ http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/
- ConstantineXVI 15y agoIf they are, I'd see it the same way as funding the node port. The less temptations for developers to build on *nix, the better for Microsoft. Using Windows on EC2 means they're still using Windows, after all.
- kcvv 15y agoI just created a MS free tier instance and found it was using Windows Datacenter edition. If I recall, with DC edition, if you buy a DC edition licence for a physical server and run only Hyper-V hypervisor role on it, you can have unlimited number of virtual servers on it for free. I'ts possible Amazon is using this licencing clause to their advantage.