Is Microsoft Taking over Linux?
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Also, Microsoft is a Linux company now. Kroah-Hartman continued: “Over 50% of their Azure workloads are Linux now. It’s amazingly huge.” He said Microsoft now has a Linux distribution, just like Amazon with AWS, which is a Linux distribution, and Oracle.

Will Microsoft replace Windows with Linux?

The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.

What is Microsoft doing with Linux?

As a result, Microsoft began working with distros like Red Hat and Ubuntu to tune the Linux kernel for Azure; and if customers run into bugs in Linux when it’s running on Azure, Microsoft will work on the bug and contribute code to fix problems (or just to make workloads like SAP run better).

James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

Environmental Science & Climate Journalist

James Sterling reports on renewable energy developments, climate policy, ecological conservation, and green tech innovations around the globe.

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