Three and a half ago, Microsoft's cloud company Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said: "Linux is a quarter of Azure instance." Then, in 2017, Microsoft revealed 40% of Azure virtual machine is based on Linux. Then in the fall of 2018, Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise groups in an exclusive interview that "about half of the Azure virtual machine of Linux."
Now, Microsoft Linux kernel developers Sasha Levin upon request allow Microsoft to join the list of Linux security said, "We use Linux on cloud amount has exceeded Windows".
In fact, it is not entirely true.
To a large extent, Linux is running on enterprise computing in the cloud and internal servers, while the market share of Windows Server for many years has been declining. In the latest IDC Worldwide operating systems and subsystems market share report, Linux accounted for 68% of market share, from the beginning, Linux was used on Azure's continued growth.
Guthrie said, "Every month, Linux will rise", so Linux ruling Azure is only a matter of time.
Select Linux is not just Microsoft's Azure customers, Guthrie explained:. "Local Azure services are often run on Linux, Microsoft is building more such services, for example, Azure's SDN (Software Defined Network, software-defined network) is Linux-based. "
Why more and more people choose Linux and open source software? Guthrie explained: "It's beginning 10 years ago, our open source ASP.NET, we recognize that open source is that each developer can benefit from something, although it's not very good, but it is necessary, it is not. just the code, as well as more communities. "Guthrie was also claimed," we are now the world's largest open source project supporters. "
微软前首席执行官 Steve Ballmer 曾说过：“Linux 是一种癌症”，但他现在也喜欢 Linux。
现在 Azure 上至少有 8 个 Linux 发行版可用，这还不包括微软自己的 Azure Sphere。Azure Sphere 是一个软件和硬件栈，旨在保护边缘设备，微软总裁 Brad Smith 说它是一个定制的 Linux 内核。
所以无论如何，可以说现在的世界是 Linux 的世界。
信息来源：ZDNet