Last June Microsoft ran a build of Linux on its Windows Azure compute fabric in the labs of the Server and Tools division, which is responsible for its cloud.
Microsoft's magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux - Register
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Microsoft knows Red Hat is important: as much as it hurt his eyes , in 2005 Steve Ballmer presided over a demonstration of Microsoft's Virtual Server at a Microsoft Management Summit running Red Hat and managed through Operations Manager. This rapprochement came five years into a Redmond campaign to dismiss and vilify Linux with Ballmer saying his company had listened to customers who'd demanded better support for non-Windows machines.Microsoft's magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux - Register
