Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server

5 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by CrankyBear
(zdnet.com)

5 Comments

johnathan101

10 hours ago

The interesting shift isn't that Microsoft ships Linux anymore—it's that almost nobody is surprised by it.

pjmlp

7 hours ago

It is clear that UNIX won the server room, and the current form most people use of it is Linux, because POSIX ends up being a bit meh.

Additionally, it is a kind of phyrric victory, because when using cloud services with managed containers, the underlying OS isn't that much relevant, unless using languages like C and C++, without rich runtimes that abstract the OS.