Curious to know about the dev environment within Microsoft. Do they use any flavor of Linux? How is the open source adoption in general? Do employees feel some soft of disconnect with rest of the industry after working there for long? Asking about newer orgs like Bing, AI&R etc and not windows specific orgs.
Yes - used in office 365 groups like Yammer and in dev div groups and in mileiq . It is also used a lot in open source team in dev div
They’re acquisitions, that’s why.
Used in Azure yes
We have a full fledged Linux subsystem built right into Windows 10 (aka bash on Windows). I'm pretty sure the team that worked on it use Linux heavily.
There are some acquired products that have services that run on Linux, for historical reasons. “Native” Microsoft product services don’t run on Linux. There are always dozens of infrastructure convergence projects, and the target platform has been Windows, so far. This may change in the next few years, and how fast is going to depend on the Azure org.
When I was there, it was all windows in my team.
Thanks for the input! Seems a bit mixed, but not unheard of.
LinkedIn uses Linux everywhere
Yes, it replaces blue screen of death with black screen of death
In my team I can use whatever I want to get the job done. I have both a Ubuntu machine and a Windows 10 machine at my desk
With WSL in Windows 10 doesn't this question become irrelevant?
Its upto each team what they use, right? I want to know what is the general trend within microsoft. Do people like using Linux based systems or hate it?
No, it’s not Amazon. At Microsoft, we are driving towards having one of everything. I think our model for this is Google.