Subj : Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Mon Apr 08 2024 11:46 am

On 06 Apr 2024 at 09:44a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>  ni> Everyone is going this route. I personally hate it. These companies m
 Ni>  ni> constant revenue based off subscriptions now... Plus it all sits on t
 Ni>  ni> hardware.
 Ni> 
 Ni> What do you mean by "sits on their hardware"?  Microsoft does make their
 Ni> own line of computers (Surface), but as far as I know, their cloud-based
 Ni> services like SharePoint, OneDrive, and such can run on any capable
 Ni> hardware.  Also, I don't know if Microsoft even makes any server
 Ni> hardware..

Oh they do: lots of it, and it's probably very good.  It's
what's running in their hyperscale data centers that provide
the backend for all of their cloud-based services (including
Azure).

It's not for sale to the general public, though.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

.