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One strong reason is to lure back developer love. One reason why most startups use Macs or linux machines is because open source libraries runs on linux and mos

One strong reason is to lure back developer love. One reason why most startups use Macs or linux machines is because open source libraries runs on linux and most of the time on OSX without much modifications. Windows is always an afterthought and is lucky if Windows support is available in a few months. MS knows this and knows that if the trend is not reversed soon, Windows market share will decline.

WorldWideWayne 12y ago
Most online SaaS/Internet startups? Yes. Maybe some on Azure too. Every other type of business startup is going to use Windows because software. Call centers, restaurants, supermarkets, retail stores, real estate, financial, pharmaceutical, etc.
- rjbwork 12y ago
  We are a SaaS startup using exclusively Azure. Minus the complete lack of a data warehousing/OLAP service, it's great!
  - MichaelGG 12y ago
    Have you compared the cost of your compute/VMs to Google Compute Engine? When I did, Azure was literally double the cost. And it has useful SSD options which Azure doesn't yet have. But Azure is a fairly cool product overall.
    - rjbwork 12y ago
      Azure does actually have SSD options for both VMs and Storage Accounts now.
    - rjbwork 12y ago
      Also, no, we haven't. They don't provide native .NET, like Microsoft (obviously), access to all of their services. Azure's pretty much the only option for infrastructure-less .NET at the moment.
MichaelGG 12y ago
And that depends on the kernel interface? I don't think so. If you mean MS should start shipping "Unix Services for Windows" again, in earnest, yes, sure. But that hardly requires a separate kernel (and killing all current hardware support, etc.)