Microsoft “loves Linux” as it makes Azure bigger, better

Posted by the_doctor on Oct 21, 2014 9:03 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Peter Bright
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In San Francisco today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said something that was more than a little surprising: Microsoft loves Linux. The operating system once described as a "cancer" by Nadella's predecessor, Steve Ballmer, is now being embraced (if not extended) with open arms, at least when it comes to Redmond's Azure cloud platform. Nadella told us that some 20 percent of VMs on Azure use the open source operating system.

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