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Yes because Microsoft got a special license from Apple that allows for the virtualization of Mac OS on non Apple hardware... The rest of us is still running on

• reaperhulk 4y ago
  Do you have a source for this claim? As far as I’m aware Azure racks mac minis and has no special license, but I’d be fascinated to be wrong.
• deleted 4y ago
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• scarface74 4y ago
  This isn’t true. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/cloud-hosted-mac-agents-for-ci-cd-pipelines/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/cloud-hosted-mac-agent... > Please be aware that during this preview, our Mac hardware is hosted in third party datacenters in the United States and your build and release data could cross geopolitical lines. After each build completes, its macOS VM is reimaged, leaving no trace of your data on the agent. For more information, see where VSTS data is stored. Our Mac datacenters will expand to other geographies soon
  • Arnavion 4y ago
    Better link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml#hardware https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agen... >Agents that run macOS images are provisioned on Mac pros with a 3 core CPU, 14 GB of RAM, and 14 GB of SSD disk space. These agents always run in the US irrespective of the location of your Azure DevOps organization.
  • agsnu 4y ago
    It sounds like they're just using MacStadium.