?? Azure is used mainly by Microsoft customers who prefer Windows VMs, so the low number of Linux VMs is not surprising. It's actually surprisingly high.
Compared to our Linux VMs on GCP, which get millisecond sync and stay that way because NTP actually works on whatever platform they use.
It's shocking that Windows still has no proper NTP support and people are OK with their clocks being so off. Makes logging and debugging certain issues a bigger pain.