deskthority

Interesting story! http://news.microsoft.com/europe/featur ... emotion-2/
Even more interesting that they turned to Linux, instead of using MS technology for the whole thing.

when you get to massive amounts of data windows just wont cut it.

You need something that is designed to scale like linux or BSD or solaris.

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Microsoft is using a lot of Linux on their cloud services, which they're trying to make their core business. There is no Docker-like container technology for Windows yet for example. Not to talk about the ridiculous licensing headaches you have with using Windows for computing...

They also opened their technology stack: .NET is open source now for the most part, as well as their compilers. SQL Server is coming out for Linux, too. You can develop Android apps in C# now with Visual Studion/Xamarin. With the cloud taking over everything, the OS platform wars seem to be mostly a thing of the past on the backend.

Clients/devices are a different story...

isn't Microsoft Azure based on linux too?

You can get Linux VMs of different flavours on Azure, and I think I read somewhere that a majority of hosted VMs is actually Linux, but the host OS they use internally is something based on Windows Server and HyperV.

Halvar wrote: You can get Linux VMs of different flavours on Azure, and I think I read somewhere that a majority of hosted VMs is actually Linux, but the host OS they use internally is something based on Windows Server and HyperV.

official source https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ ... witch-acs/

tl;dr: Azure Cloud Switch is based on linux.

Ah yes, silly me, I was only thinking about servers. I never heard of anyone using Windows for serious networking devices, so I'm not surprised.