During the 2001 earthquake, the Microsoft employees in Seattle only left the building when they got a massage on their computer screens “Alarms going off! Please evacuate the building! Have a Wonderful Day!,” ignoring the vibrations, klaxons, and flashing lights of the alarm system¹⁾.

Since 2019 Microsoft is earning more from cloud services (mostly Azure) than from Windows or any other traditional product group, including hardware²⁾. Moreover Azure revenue growth 48%, wile Windows OEM licenses fall 5% for quarter ended September 2020.

Linux is currently most often used operating system image in Microsoft Azure platform³⁾.