Linux exceeds Windows Server and is the most widely used operating system on Microsoft Azure
Through the words of a Microsoft manager, we find that on the Microsoft Azure platform the use of Linux has surpassed that of Microsoft.
Linux is now the most widely used operating system on Microsoft Azure, according to ZDNet, citing a Microsoft developer working on the Linux kernel. The same source states that about 3 and a half years ago only one Azure machine out of four used Linux. The systems with Linux in the Azure platform have become 40% in 2017, about half in the autumn of 2018 and, according to what has been revealed in the last few days ” the use of Linux on the cloud platform has exceeded that of Windows Server. ”
” Every month Linux grows, ” said Scott Guthrie’s words to the source: ” Azure native services are often run on Linux. For example, the Azure Software Defined Network (SDN) is based on Linux. ” Several years ago, Microsoft strongly opposed Linux and open-source in general, but in recent years, there has been a clear (and necessary) opening. The company first accepted the use of the open-source operating system on Azure, then introduced its kernel on Windows 10.
Microsoft has also acquired GitHub, made MS-DOS open-source and has also contributed to the development of the Chromium project. Guthrie explained that the company recognized the importance of open-source more than 10 years ago when it made the ASP.NET code available to the community: ” We recognized that every developer can benefit from open-source ” , her words. ” It’s not just beautiful, it’s fundamental. It’s not just code, but it’s community “. And now Microsoft is ” the biggest supporter of open-source in the world “.
In short, we can say that the axes of war have been deposed for several years now, but it does have an effect to discover that even Redmond’s essential services have moved massively towards open-source. The gradual opening up to the community by a giant like Microsoft can only do good for innovation, especially in a time when there are several technologies in development or on the horizon such as AI, IoT and 5G, in which open-source can only do well by speeding up technological evolution.
