Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) Date: 25 Jun 2025 18:44:16 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <100c46e$3c1el$1@news1.tnib.de> <100ei6c$3hmb9$1@news1.tnib.de> <103gd3t$2lluh$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net S946hm5c7UrDQE3kI7NQNwb27g2k8AIcFf1BxwLPEL2nZ03rvm Cancel-Lock: sha1:MmI5VX2e75yCDZqjzj4/Vq2asGs= sha256:sbvB1+YGIEH02ThsoMmqPnobN2OQjbGuAWxGznLrFzw= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69143 On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:47:58 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2025 08:13:31 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >>> Call it what you will but for some strange reason Windows Server is >>> cheaper on Azure. >> >> Might be because Azure's owner doesn't have to pay for Windows >> licenses? > > And yet Microsoft admits that, even on their cloud, Linux is more > popular than Windows -- way more popular. > > Given the higher support costs of Windows, if they’re offering that for > free, that’s actually a disincentive for their salespeople to promote > Windows over Linux, because the Linux instances are going to be more > profitable. Azure doesn't exactly offer free Windows Server but enter promo code GOTCHA for a discount. Microsoft is a little paranoid about where the next anti-monopoly suit will come from.