Microsoft has released a Linux based operating system on its cloud platform Azure

The June 8 News, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft has always regarded Linux as a strong competitive threat, especially in the server market. After years of fighting, however, the situation has improved dramatically, and Microsoft has reportedly released a Linux operating system on its cloud platform Azure.

It is reported that the Linux service will be in the eastern United States Thursday morning four official in Azure online. Microsoft's Azure doors will be open to Linux distributions such as SuSE Linux Enterprise Server sp2,opensuse 12.01, CentOS 6.2 and canonical Ubuntu 12.04. In this way, Azure users will be able to select and configure the Linux release software in the Microsoft Azure Mirror, and the cost will be measured in hours.

The message says that Azure users can also deploy their applications made with SUSE Studio integrated development environment directly to Azure. In this case, users don't have to worry about machine mirroring. Instead, users can solve the problem by typing their azure account into SuSE Studio before they configure the application to Azure cloud services.

Microsoft's move is a surprise to some Microsoft observers because, traditionally, Microsoft is a platform company built behind the halo of Windows's great success.

Although Microsoft has released its Azure cloud service platform. However, Microsoft faces competition from Amazon's cloud computing platform, AWS (Amazon Web Services), and AWS offers Linux distributions, which provide Windows with canonical Ubuntu and red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Linux distributions.

Over the past few years, Microsoft engineers have done a lot to ensure that Microsoft's Hyper-V Windows based hypervisor driver is compatible with Linux. It's Azure's basic management program, and as part of its early collaboration with SUSE, Microsoft has also collaborated with SuSE to make Linux fit to run on Hyper-V.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)