Microsoft To Run Linux On Azure

snydeq writes "After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m. EDT on Thursday. At that time, the Azure portal will offer a number of Linux distributions, including Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, OpenSuse 12.01, CentOS 6.2 and Canonical Ubuntu 12.04. Azure users will be able to choose and deploy a Linux distribution from the Microsoft Windows Azure Image Gallery and be charged on an hourly pay-as-you-go basis."

This affects my vacation plans

[claytongulick]

I was planning to book a skiing vacation in Colorado, but it looks at if all the sweet powder will be on the mountains in hell.

Are you sure?

[symbolset]

With so many different Linux distributions, how are you so sure one isn't named Azure?

Isn't it Reassuring to Know ...

[srobert]

... that Microsoft is now embracing Linux and will be extending its capabilities?

Re:Heh...

[Taco Cowboy]

And a cancer

And throw in a chair

Re:It's nothing personal, Linux

[catmistake]

They have excluded their own proprietary enterprise solutions in favor of Linux.

Citation please.

it was a little tough to find this, but here ya go:
Microsoft To Run Linux On Azure [slashdot.org]

the real reason

[slashmydots]

Apparently even Microsoft can't affording Microsoft licensing on its servers, lol.

Re:Kilkenny Cats

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh my God! They Kilkenny!

You bastards!