Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
by bigbizisverywyz on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:20AM
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The question I have is what's in it for Microsoft, why did they even bother to do this in the first place? I can't believe there would be that big of a cash incentive.
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
by foolmeonce on Friday February 12, 2021 @12:49PM
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If this were Windows, I would expect Microsoft to pass it to an internal department that sells higher service contracts and then off to 3rd parties that provide the same for up to a week after you find the "don't share my data" checkbox.
That (enterprise support) is a very important side business. Whether they got cash from other OSes or just set it up the same to fight an eventual Anti-Trust Case is anyone's guess.