It’s definitely a form of Linux. Their own product Windows Server is just for small and medium businesses and mostly used for managing Windows devices (with Active Directory domain controllers) and various Windows application/terminal servers. It’s never really used for anything serious. Linux is basically the only relevant server OS these days, except for some specific use cases or specific preferences.
What OSes do Microsoft servers run on?
Submitted 2 months ago by silverneedle@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 months ago
Im not a windows fan but clearly its software was made and used at the large enterprise level. That being said many network things are way better to be doing with some form of unix and most busineeses are only going to do active director and office related stuff on windows.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 months ago
probably a mix of azure linux, windows server and some other linux distros
msokiovt@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’d have to assume enterprise Linux, since they don’t use their own server OS (Windows Server).
MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Windows 3.1
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Imagine walking up to a Microsoft engineer and asking them what software their company’s servers run on
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Microsoft’s been pretty open about using Linux for at least the past decade or so.
They kept building it into Windows which eventually resulted in WSL, largely because they use Linux servers but Windows workstations.
It was about 5 years ago that they publicly released Common Base Linux Mariner (now called Azure Linux).
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There is also Microsoft Azure Linux github.com/microsoft/azurelinux