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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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snhkicker ◴[30 Mar 16 17:33 UTC] No.11391195[source]▶
I think this will be met VERY VERY badly by readers of this comment but this change as far as i understand is windows telling canonical to help them in taking their customers i live in egypt and other than containers and CLI and running it as webservers there is practically no way for anyone to even consider using linux i don't think this will end up well for linux i think windows attempts will take the webservers business from linux in 5 years or something which is probably 90% of it
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1. digi_owl ◴[30 Mar 16 17:38 UTC] No.11391253[source]▶
Microsoft has their own cloud service, Azure.

And Ubuntu's biggest "market" these days is not desktop, but as a container base.

So this is MS getting cozy with Canonical to offer a development environment for Ubuntu based containers destined for Azure.