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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by flohofwoe on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:58PM (#23158183)
I don't have actual numbers obviously, but I'd imagine that a lot of Xbox multiplayer game backends and probably all of Xbox Live is running on Azure Windows servers, and Xbox is a pretty big platform by number of users.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/microsoft-wants-azur...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/gaming/

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by bureado on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:49PM (#23158840)
This Xbox service runs on Kubernetes: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-xbox-game-st... (I work on Azure, focusing on Linux and open source technologies)
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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by rpeden on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:01PM (#23159769)
At least some of the Halo games used Orleans as part of the multiplayer backend:

https://github.com/dotnet/orleans

Orleans can run on .NET Core now, but I don't believe .NET Core existed when those backends were first created. So they would've been running under the full .NET Framework on Windows.

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by capableweb on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:45PM (#23158793)
The keyword that seems to be missing from both of those links is "Windows". Seems they are running on Azure alright, but that they are using Windows doesn't seem to be so sure.
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