Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

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Then in the fall of 2018, Scott Guthrie, Microsofts executive VP of the cloud and enterprise group, told me in an exclusive interview, "About half Azure VMs are Linux". Linux is largely what runs enterprise computing both on in-house servers and on the cloud. Guthrie explained, "Native Azure services are often running on Linux. For example, Azures Software Defined Network (SDN) is based on Linux. This is a software and hardware stack designed to secure edge devices, which included Microsoft president Brad Smith declared, "a custom Linux kernel".

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