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Redmond top man Satya Nadella: 'Microsoft LOVES Linux'

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The Register; By Neil McAllister
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"Microsoft loves Linux" is generally not something one expects to hear, but that was one of the messages that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered at a San Francisco media event touting Redmond's cloud offerings on Monday. According to Nadella, 20 per cent of Microsoft's Azure cloud is already Linux and the software giant plans to always have first-class support for Linux distributions in its public cloud offerings.

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Meaning that they don't care squat if you use Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX or some hacky pile of assembly, either way you are paying them for the computing time used.

Lets keep in mind that the patches MS have contributed to the kernel are all related to running Linux on top of a MS virtual machine.

Seems more and more that the IT world is set over semi-overlapping circles labeled Microsoft, Google, Apple, and, oddly enough, Amazon.

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