Microsoft: Nearly one in three Azure virtual machines now are running Linux | ZDNet

Another clear indication it's not business-as-usual for Microsoft

"During his keynote at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich showed off some of the new and upcoming ways Microsoft is adding more container support to its cloud and server products. He also revealed a couple of new interesting datapoints.
In the past year, Russinovich said, Microsoft has gone from one in four of its Azure virtual machines running Linux to nearly one in three. The other two thirds of Azure customers are running Windows Server in their virtual machines."

Microsoft: Nearly one in three Azure virtual machines now are running Linux | ZDNet