| ▲ | matthewmc3 an hour ago | |
10% of Microsoft's revenue is Windows. Azure is closer to 40%. Their focus has shifted hard from software to services. Azure is making them around $100B and growing. It'd be far more surprising if they were putting their focus back to Windows in a saturated market given all the incentives they have to chase bigger revenue elsewhere. | ||
| ▲ | Shorel 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yeah, but there's no reason to go Azure unless you are really tied to the MS Windows ecosystem. If there's choice, everyone goes with Linux servers. | ||
| ▲ | aksss 17 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Can't reply to @shorel, but of course Azure is running Linux servers. It has nothing to do with being tied to a Windows ecosystem. Your choice to go with Azure probably has more to do with where you're getting value for cloud services, and where you started your project - in other words, how tied you are to the Azure ecosystem, or the AWS ecosystem as the case may be. | ||