Thursday, January 12, 2012

Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012 | ZDNet

Actually, it should be any O/S, if VMs are available… an interesting twist on cannibalizing their existing Windows Azure platform.

To date, Microsoft has been balking at customer requests to add persistent VMs to Azure, hoping to get customers to develop Azure apps from scratch instead. But the lack of the ability to host apps like SharePoint and other third-party business applications with persistence was a deal breaker for a number of business users who were unwilling to consider Azure until Microsoft added this support, one of my contacts said.

Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012 | ZDNet

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