• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Ok so I’m not very into tech and I had a hard time understanding what was going on especially since I didn’t know what Microsoft Azure was. So TIL that’s a computing cloud system, and that now you have a Linux distro called Azure as well which can be run on this cloud for some reason but also on your laptop (I guess it operates from the cloud? Bit confused about that too)

    Now the million dollar question: why? Why is Microsoft doing this? They are obviously seeing a path to fuck people over in a couple of chess moves, but I’m not good at this game, so here I’m asking those of you who actually understand the significance of this

    • zonico@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      I read a blog post from an ex-lead engineer on Azure. That drove Azure into the ground to an extend where it was not salvagable anymore. So they needed to start from scratch. The solution is to start anew from Linux.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago
      1. For their internal Linux needs - Most of Microlop infrastructure runs on Linux, so they’ve optimized the os for themselves
      2. For their customers - a lot of companies will choose it because they want Linux but they also want one supported by Microslop for some reason