Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0

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• Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0
• Azure Linux has split into Azure Container Linux and the new virtual machine edition: Azure Linux.
• Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto Linux-based company.

Minneapolis - So, there I was at Open Source Summit North America, listening to Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and today Microsoft's Corporate VP of Azure Cloud Native and Management Platform, and Open Source, talk about the evolution from open-source to agentic AI. Then, in the middle of his presentation, he said, "When I started in Azure 10 years ago, it was not the majority operating system running on the Azure cloud. It has become the majority operating system running on the Azure cloud in the past 10 years. And today, I ...