"Microsoft Secretly Runs on Linux Now — And They Just Admitted It"
Microsoft's former CEO once called Linux a "cancer." Today, Microsoft officially issues Linux laptops to thousands of its own engineers — fully enrolled in Microsoft's own Intune device management system, right alongside Windows machines. In this video, we break down how Microsoft's internal engineering culture quietly shifted toward Linux over the past decade, from the custom Linux kernel powering the Azure Cloud Switch, to Azure Sphere, to a Microsoft engineer who built his own Windows-like Linux distribution called AnduinOS in his spare time. We explore why Azure's cloud infrastructure depends so heavily on Linux, why Microsoft's own AI strategy for products like ChatGPT relies on Linux and Kubernetes, and where Microsoft still draws a hard line by keeping Windows mandatory for most of its workforce. This is the story of how one of the most Windows-defined companies in history quietly became one of the largest corporate contributors to the open-source world it once tried to destroy — and what that says about the gap between a company's public image and its internal reality. If you're into deep dives on the hidden side of major tech companies, hit subscribe — there's a lot more of this story still to uncover.
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