In February 2016, Microsoft announced that it was bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux — the flagship product of Microsoft’s biggest open source competitor — to its Azure cloud as a new OS option. It had good reason to think the move would please customers, since Microsoft also reported at the time that 60 percent of the Azure images were Linux-based even before RHEL became an option.
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