Microsoft Makes 'Linux' Look Bad and Does Anticompetitive Things (UPDATEDx3)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 30, 2022,
updated Sep 01, 2022

• Microsoft Azure's Canonical Ubuntu service experiencing DNS errors

  Microsoft Azure customers are experiencing issues on Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machines.

  The cloud company said that users are experiencing DNS errors when trying to access resources, with the issue impacting customers around the globe.

• Microsoft Finalizes Plans to Fix Unfair Licensing in EU [Ed: No, Microsoft could never "recognize the importance of a competitive environment"]

  Responding to a three-year-old complaint, Microsoft today said that it would fix its unfair licensing terms in the EU. “We recognize the importance of a competitive environment in the European cloud provider market, in which smaller competitors can thrive,” a new post to the Microsoft Corporate Blogs notes. “It is therefore critical for us to remain mindful of our responsibilities as a major technology company.”

Microsoft is trying to blame others for its own incompetence, as usual.

• Microsoft Azure outage knocks Ubuntu VMs offline after buggy update

• Microsoft: Azure Outage Caused by Ubuntu Update Issue

• Microsoft Azure's Canonical Ubuntu service experiencing DNS errors

• Ubuntu 18.04 systemd security update breaks DNS in Azure

• Ubuntu update causes server downtime on Microsoft Azure

UPDATE

Still hostile FUD against Linux -- courtesy of Microsoft.

• Microsoft Azure outage continues for some services relying on Ubuntu 'Bionic' release [Ed: Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley has just written a BS piece trying to blame "Ubuntu" for Azure (Microsoft) issues. "Not a surprise," an associate notes, as "Azure is full of security holes, in addition to unreasonably high operating costs and poor performance. They'll continue their decades-long tactic of blaming "Linux people" for all their problems. For a while that was their go-to excuse for getting cracked or defaced."]

• Microsoft releases potential fix for Azure errors in Ubuntu 18.04 VMs

  Microsoft on Tuesday reported that for a number of Azure customers running Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machines (VMs), a bug in this version will lead to DNS resolution errors.

More of this on Thursday.

• Dodgy Microsoft Azure update knocks Ubuntu VMs offline [Ed: Microsoft systemd]

• Microsoft to Use the Mariner Linux Distro Exclusively for Its Xbox Storefronts [Ed: Microsofters love to pretend Microsoft 'owns' Linux]