Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that's nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora - Windows Latest

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, Fedora, and RHEL

Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, called “Linux a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” At Build 2026 in June, the same company…