alt Hacker NewsIsn't it an age thing mostly? Younger admins hate Microsoft with a passion it seems to me. Or is just my circle of acquaintances?
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More an issue of procedures and processes, MS selling turn-key solutions and how things work on big companies
Try managing a directory service even on RedHat and see how it goes.
Well, as far as my experience, we the old generation despise Microsoft even more
You don't get promoted to positions with power to choose for hating Microsoft.
Silicon Valley likes to pretend Microsoft doesn't exist.
I... get it.
The FAANGS needed to scale to a level where paying per-core licensing fees for an operating system was simply out of the question, not to mention the lack of customisability.
As a consequence, they all adopted Linux as their core server operating system.
Then, as their devs made millions in share options, they all scattered and made thousands of little startups... each one of which cloned the assumption that only Linux was a viable operating system for servers.
The mistake here is the same one that caused "Only MongoDB is Web Scale" and "Microservices are necessary for two devs and a PC as our server".
Just because a trillion dollar corporation decides on a thing, it does not mean it applies universally.
Outside of this bizarre little bubble, Windows is everywhere and Windows Server is still about 50% of the overall server market.
Europeans bizarrely love Azure.