IDG Contributor Network: How Microsoft is becoming a Linux vendor

Linux and open source technologies have become too dominant in data centers, cloud and IoT for Microsoft to ignore them.On Microsoft’s own cloud, one in three machines run Linux. These are Microsoft customers who are running Linux. Microsoft needs to support the platform they use, or they will go somewhere else. Here's how Microsoft's Linux strategy breaks down on its developer platform (Windows 10), on its cloud (Azure) and datacenter (Windows Server).Linux in Windows: IT professiona