Competition is worse than cooperation Microsoft announced the provision of Linux operating system in Azure cloud services

Computer store news Microsoft has always regarded Linux as a strong competitive threat, especially in the server market. However, after many years of fighting, the situation has improved a lot. According to reports, Microsoft released a Linux-based operating system on its cloud messaging platform Azure. It is reported that the Linux service will be officially launched on Azure at 4 am on Thursday morning. By then, Microsoft's Azure will be open to Linux distributions such as Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, OpenSuse 12.01, CentOS 6.2 and Canonical Ubuntu 12.04.

As a result, Azure users will be able to select and configure the Linux distribution software in the Microsoft Azure image library, and the cost will be calculated on an hourly basis. According to the news, Azure users can also deploy their applications built with the Suse Studio integrated development environment directly to Azure. In this case, users don't have to worry about machine mirroring. Instead, users can solve the problem by simply typing their Azure account into Suse Studio before configuring the app to Azure Cloud Service. Microsoft's move is a surprise to some Microsoft observers, because in the traditional sense, Microsoft is a platform company built on the huge success of Windows. Although Microsoft released its Azure cloud service platform. However, Microsoft is facing competition from Amazon's cloud computing platform, AWS (Amazon Web Services), which also offers Linux distributions. In addition to Windows, it also has Linux distributions such as Canonical Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the past few years, Microsoft engineers have done a lot of work to ensure that Microsoft's Hyper-V Windows-based hypervisor drivers are compatible with Linux. That's Azure's basic hypervisor, and as part of an early collaboration with Suse, Microsoft has worked extensively with Suse to make Linux work on Hyper-V.