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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 gro
by matthewmc3 24d 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 24d agoYeah, 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.
- blauditore 24d agoWe 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.
- Shorel 24d agoPoint taken. But, are your servers Linux or Windows?
- aksss 24d agoCan'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.
- foepys 24d agoMany larger businesses have a contract with Microsoft for their Windows licenses and then go to Azure because they already get billed by them.
- gregors 24d agoAnd Linux is the premier OS on Azure. I'll never stop getting a kick out of Azure Linux. https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux