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How desperate is Microsoft right now? Their model website was trying hard to be Anthropic, now they claim they have a linux distro? Which is just a tuned versio

• szszrk 4mo ago
  > now they claim they have a linux distro? They have had a linux distro for a while, this one is at least 6 years old. They used it for container workloads, including those visible to client like AKS. It seems with 4 they are using Fedora underneath.
• sourcegrift 4mo ago
  Xenix was microsoft's. If you do ctrl-alt-f2 (to f7), you have Microsoft to thank
• pjmlp 4mo ago
  They are valued 4 trillon dollars, lots of FOSS stuff now depends on Microsoft's money. Valve has to translate Windows and DirectX to have any meaningful games on the SteamDeck. Only HNers to think Microsoft is desperate.
• pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
  I don't think it's desperate. I'm thinking companies are now paying for Red Hat license and support on Azure VMs and Microsoft wants that money. It's an easy thing for Microsoft sales guy to offer to your bosses' bosses' boss next time they're golfing and having expensive dinner together, "hey you can get your Linux also from us, it will save you money by consolidating vendors and whatnot". I expect many companies will switch to this no matter how much worse it might be than what they had previously.
  • 2b3a51 4mo ago
    But if people are paying for RHEL they won't be using Fedora for production workloads will they?