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The future of .NET is on both Windows and Linux. Millions of existing .NET developers are happy to continue making .NET code for billions of Windows devices. On PaaS, it still makes a lot of sense to use Windows as the underlying OS. And, yes, the proportion of Linux vs. Windows underneath will go up, because that's the only direction available.

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>On PaaS, it still makes a lot of sense to use Windows as the underlying OS

Why is this the case? I would have thought PaaS of all things would be OS agnostic as the end user doesn't really care about the OS or how things are being done in the background as long as it's simple to deploy/configure etc.

For example if Azure Websites suddenly made this big shift to Linux for some reason, it wouldn't affect anyone actually using the service.

Maybe they meant the future of .NET server side. I could see that in the future with the last holdouts being big corporate server environments already heavily invested in Windows (particularly internal apps).

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