Microsoft Azure Strategy

Azure works well enough when Microsoft's footing the bill!

That's what M$ does with Azure, is it not?

The bank I'm working for recently decided to switch to Azure despite the vast majority of developers preferring AWS. From what I've heard, it's probably related to the company switching to Office 365. Sounds to me like Microsoft is leveraging its dominance in one market to also dominate another market.

It's because Microsoft took this shit seriously and built a credible competitor. They are very wisely leveraging their popular enterprise software like Office 365 and Active Directory and branding them as Azure services. Then selling everything under the same enterprise licensing umbrella. Not to mention all the retail companies that are in direct competition with Amazon and would gladly send their money elsewhere. I've switched from AWS to Azure recently and haven't missed a beat

This is unlikely, since Microsoft has put a lot of money and marketing behind their own cloud offering, Azure. It also is inconsistent with everything that they are trying to do with Office360.

Azure. Microsoft revolves around Azure these days, if they can provide a better dev experience that leads to more people using Azure they're happy to spend money on it.

The bigger picture for MS now is building out Azure. They don't care what OS you are running on Azure as long as you aren't using AWS. You know Azure is forecast to exceed the revenues of Windows and Office by 2020, right?

Wouldn’t Microsoft have had to hire Linux sysadmins to run azure products?

Microsoft, Azure, why am I not surprised?

Not true, at least not according to MS themselves. MS have done several studies and adoption of these tools drive adoption of Azure. That's why MS invests in it.They've been quite clear about this. The one platform/OS was Windows. The new platform/OS is Azure/Cloud. It's almost like saying Google doesn't make any revenues from search, only from selling ads.