>I'm guessing that, whatever frustrations, Windows will be able to support the computing for my business.
Azure/.Net SRE/DevOps whatever person here. I wouldn't be that confident in that bet.
Windows Server, if you look at change log for each version, it's not a ton and IIS hasn't seen any love for a while. While Microsoft will continue to offer it, it's mostly in maintenance mode.
.Net (Core) team is clearly over Windows. I've talked to Microsoft developers on this several times, they have been extremely upfront about it. Linux is preferred operating system for running .Net. Performance is much better, testing is better and it's cheaper which is massive positive. .Net powers a ton of Azure and Linux is first choice.
Speaking of other Microsoft Technologies, SQL Server is getting worse and worse and I'm seeing more and more .Net convert to MySQL or PostGres. Proget, the king of .Net Software Packaging is moving to PostGres: https://blog.inedo.com/inedo/so-long-sql-server-thanks-for-a...
Azure/.Net SRE/DevOps whatever person here. I wouldn't be that confident in that bet.
Windows Server, if you look at change log for each version, it's not a ton and IIS hasn't seen any love for a while. While Microsoft will continue to offer it, it's mostly in maintenance mode.
.Net (Core) team is clearly over Windows. I've talked to Microsoft developers on this several times, they have been extremely upfront about it. Linux is preferred operating system for running .Net. Performance is much better, testing is better and it's cheaper which is massive positive. .Net powers a ton of Azure and Linux is first choice.
Speaking of other Microsoft Technologies, SQL Server is getting worse and worse and I'm seeing more and more .Net convert to MySQL or PostGres. Proget, the king of .Net Software Packaging is moving to PostGres: https://blog.inedo.com/inedo/so-long-sql-server-thanks-for-a...