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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by nimbius on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:51PM (#23159613)
A few use cases come to mind:

- Microsoft often bundles discounts for their their desktop and server licenses (used for AD and such) with Azure credits. Managers are under pressure to use the free service to deliver value, so teams are told to spin up things in azure as they see fit. reject the credits and reject the discount for the stuff you do use.

- Office 365, Outlook, Xbox Live, Xbox Music and Video, the Microsoft website, MSN, Search, and Visual Studio Online all run in Azure either in whole or in part. If you think Microsoft doesnt dog-food their cloud to pump its numbers, you probably werent around when they bought out shared hosting providers "park website" clusters and converted them to IIS instances to inflate their Netcraft numbers against Apache.

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by tracker1 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:21PM (#23161307)
Azure has some decent services, and a lot of people do run Windows beyond MS's own services. That said, I'm surprised the Linux users aren't closer to 75%, and bet they will be with kubernetes uptick over time for newer projects.
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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by rand49an on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:02AM (#23164617)
Office 365, Outlook and Xbox Live definitely aren't run on Azure.
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