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Hear me out on this one "Microsoft Linux"
Yes exactly. Embrace and extinguish has always been Microsoft's strategy. They'll release their own distribution and either make it slower and more complicated than Windows, so that everyone thinks Windows is the better OS, or they'll make it a cloud OS like Chrome, requiring recurring payments to use Office 365 and everything else.
I see this as the most likely outcome as well. It's the preferred route, seen all of the place lately. Want to privatize a public service? Cripple the public service enough to "prove it doesn't work" to convince people privatization is the best option. I suspect most people would switch to Microsoft Linux over something "tech" sounding like Debian or Ubuntu. When the trial of their slowed down and crashy "Linux" comes to an end, Microsoft will offer an easy solution to switch back to Windows.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/
That's just neutered Ubuntu container
Already exists as a VM option on azure
Emulation should always be Linux emulating Windows. Windows emulating Linux is just weird.
It's a Linux distro that's called Azure Linux and it looks like it's based on Fedora if the length of package attribution is anything to go by.
Its not emulation, it's a Microsoft distro
Two things, I was under the impression that Azure can emulate a lot of different Linux distro. Second, I thought the hypervisor ran on cut down version of Windows server.
VMs aren't emulation. Its a full OS running on virtual hardware. Also, yes, azure offers several distros, not just Microsoft's.
The OS of the bare metal host shouldn't matter much, if at all, to the guest. If you have a philosophical issue with the hypervisor running under windows I doubt you'd be using azure to begin with.
That makes sense. Thanks.