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.
replyAnd Linux is the premier OS on Azure. I'll never stop getting a kick out of Azure Linux.
replyYeah, but there's no reason to go Azure unless you are really tied to the MS Windows ecosystem.
replyIf there's choice, everyone goes with Linux servers.
We chose Azure for our startup because of data location, and it was cheaper than the other two as well. Data center locations may not matter much in the US (because everyone has this covered well), but it does in other places of the world.
replyCan't reply to @shorel, but of course Azure is running Linux servers. It has nothing to do with being tied to a Windows ecosystem.
replyYour 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.
Most devs choosing Macbooks has a lot to do with culture. It's boutique, cool, and all the other successful people have it. Yes, officially it's always for technical reasons, but no one would ever admit to get something just because it's shiny.
replyHmm, you are saying that devs have preferred a POSIX system over whatever Windows 11 is, because it's "boutique"?
replyNot OP, but I absolutely know people like this. Devs who don't even know what POSIX is, let alone care whether their OS is compliant.
replyYes, exactly.
replyI chose a MacBook as my laptop last job because my Nvidia drivers kept breaking on my Linux laptop
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