MS uses Linux VMS to create the next Rembrandt

[elecplus]

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.

[andrewjoy]

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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[Halvar]

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...

[matt3o]

isn't Microsoft Azure based on linux too?

[Halvar]

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.

[matt3o]

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.

[Halvar]

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.