However, reading the summary left me confused like you don't understand what's happening at Microsoft.
> Hopefully Microsoft will spend more time in the future on their server product strategy and less on Copilot ;-)
The future product strategy is clear, it's Linux for servers. .Net runs on Linux, generally with much better performance. Microsoft internally on Azure is using Linux a ton and Windows Server is legacy and hell, MSSQL is legacy. Sure, they will continue to sell it because if you want to give them thousands of dollars, they would be idiots to turn it down but it's no longer a focus.
I'd be curious what a better/non-legacy solution is! (as I do this stuff haha, and don't see much else other than full cloud options, sf etc)
It's not a dominant database anywhere on the outside.
Knowing nothing about this, I wonder if they're getting ready to retire Windows Server, and wanted to get their server products off it?
Edit: How they did it is also quite fascinating:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/2016/12/16/s...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/
>a key contribution of Drawbridge is a version of Windows that has been enlightened to run within a single Drawbridge picoprocess.
If I'm reading this right, on Linux, they're running "a version of Windows" inside some kind of emulator (Drawbridge), and running MSSQL on top of that.
I probably got the terminology wrong, but that's kind of amazing.
I know big company that run their core on Windows Server 2012, I’ve no idea how they manage the software assurance and compliance
There is also no comparable replacement for Active Directory DCs which run every major company. Even Apple and Google run AD in some capacity. (You need Windows to run non-toy CAD applications.) IIRC Samba DC emulation is still at Windows 2008 R2 level and nowhere near a drop-in replacement for serious networks.
Windows server is actually kind of awesome for when you need a Windows machine. Linux is great for servers but Windows server is the real Windows pro. Rock solid and none of the crap.
The worst part of Windows server is knowing that Microsoft can make a good operating system and chooses not to.
p_ing•2d ago
But you’re not going to do that in a lab/personal machine, usually.