Their first mention of Bazzite should link to the project website, but actually links to another unrelated article of theirs. They linked correctly shortly after, though.
I mean it’s sort of been over for Microsoft for a long time now, though to many non-IT folks it may not be so apparent.
I remember when 90% of web servers were IIS. And MS Exchange was every corporate email server, running on the 90% of servers that were Windows Server. And every laptop was a domain-joined Windows NT Toshiba or Dell.
Now even Microsoft runs their web services on Linux servers. No dev who is not forced to at gunpoint uses a Windows laptop. You’d be hard-pressed to find an SRE or DevOps hire who could confidently explain how to stand up and manage containers on a Windows Server host. And they’d probably walk out of the interview if you even mention Powershell or WMI.
The article is a bit late to the game, because Linux already won.
https://commandlinux.com/statistics/server-os-market-share-windows-vs-linux-vs-bsd/
You know a fuckload more than I do on these things, but my take is that MS (I was only an orange badge) honestly thought they could do Linux on the back end without anyone noticing. Good ploy if it works, but not great otherwise.
And frankly, the Linux/BSD pissing contest reminds me most of the Judean People’s Front vs. the People’s Front of Judea.
but my take is that MS (I was only an orange badge) honestly thought they could do Linux on the back end without anyone noticing.
Microsoft shifted from a Software company to a cloud provider. They didn’t try to hide Linux, they explicitly marketed to support Linux because Linux was already established and liked in server environments.
Company software is still a large part of Microsoft, but even those software products have shifted into the cloud. Office 365, EntraID, etc. Windows pushes users to use online accounts even for local Windows installs, and pushes users to use OneDrive and cloud Office. Windows mainly serves as an onboarding branch now.
Although they also focus on cloud and AI to onboard people onto their services, I’m glad alternative workflows and backwards compatibility are still a thing in their dotnet programming ecosystem and tooling.
I assume Windows Server remains a tool to keep people in the Windows and Microsoft world if they want to or have traditionally done so. I doubt it’s a strategic focus or plans to be novel. They can share the kernel between Windows and Windows Server, making it relatively cheap to maintain.
Yes. Microsoft is shit. They’re too big and the people making decisions there are too removed from shared reality. Fuck them. Split it up. Give it to the workers. Bury the owners in lead containers with warnings.
Linux is fine.
