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minus-squareRickRussell_CA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-224 days agoVertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services. Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoXbox is actively being dropped from Target and Walmart, but it doesn’t help that the push is for digital games with no physical presence in stores.
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoIsn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?
minus-squareRickRussell_CA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoI have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-214 days agohttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/announcing-availability-of-almalinux-as-an-endorsed-linux-distribution-in-azure/4282201 Linux has become the most popular operating system on Azure as over 60% of customer cores run Linux-based workloads. Even on Microsoft Azure they mostly use Linux Maybe windows still underpins some important services for them though, I can’t really comment on that
Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.
Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
Xbox is actively being dropped from Target and Walmart, but it doesn’t help that the push is for digital games with no physical presence in stores.
Isn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?
I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/announcing-availability-of-almalinux-as-an-endorsed-linux-distribution-in-azure/4282201
Even on Microsoft Azure they mostly use Linux
Maybe windows still underpins some important services for them though, I can’t really comment on that