In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.

Microsoft has submitted a series of patches to Linux kernel developers requesting that Linux run as the root partition on the Hyper-V, its hypervisor software for running Windows and non-Windows ...

Microsoft is giving Linux virtual machines running on Hyper-V the chance to perform much better with the release of Linux Integration Components When Microsoft finally released its long-awaited ...