They should take it off the burner altogether for Azure services and just use Linux. I’m not saying they should not host eg exchange, sql server, share point, and all their other stuff for customers. But much of their lower level infra is built on Windows, and Windows is both not ideal for large scale services and lacks the awesome FOSS ecosystem around it. And that’s before you consider how painful and slow it is to develop for.
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They should take it off the burner altogether for Azure services and just use Linux. I’m not saying they should not host eg exchange, sql server, share point, and all their other stuff for customers. But much of their lower level infra is built on Windows, and Windows is both not ideal for large scale services and lacks the awesome FOSS ecosystem around it. And that’s before you consider how painful and slow it is to develop for.