Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical
fancies the changes address licensing irritants that could get users grinding their teeth about being treated unkindly. Windows Server is the dominant proprietary server OS and therefore represents revenue worth defending, so some kind tweaks to licenses make good sense for Microsoft.
But Linux is widely believed to have surpassed Windows Server's market share. Microsoft has even admitted that more VMs in Azure run Linux than Windows Server. Linux is, of course, free and open source, and very technically mature thanks to the efforts of the likes of Red Hat, SUSE – and often Microsoft itself.
Even as Microsoft uses structures like the Azure Hybrid Benefit to lower licensing costs, penguin power therefore makes Linux a more than viable alternative. With cloud migrations continuing – and new applications more often than not built on cloud-native architectures – orgs have excellent reasons to consider platforms other than Windows Server.
Knocking a few barnacles off Windows Server licenses, therefore, might keep a few customers around for longer. ®
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