Redmond is proving that it can compete with open source on open source's terms by licensing LinuxIC under the GPLv2 license. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ...

With today’s announcement that Microsoft will release a set of three Hyper-V drivers for the Linux kernel, Microsoft is treating its Windows Server 2008 customers right, but not, by any account, ...

Mark this day in your diary: Microsoft has decided to use the GPL for some of its software. This is according to Matt Asay over on our American sister site CNet News, who reports that the Hyper-V ...

In its latest embrace of open source software, Microsoft has taken the once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community under the General Public License (GPL) version ...

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built ...

Microsoft has added support for another Linux server distribution with its Hyper-V virtualization software, its latest move to compete better with virtualization market leader VMware. Customers can ...

We've already seen how well the Surface Pro performs with high-end desktop programs as well as Android apps. How about Linux? Since the Surface Pro hardware supports Hyper-V virtualization, it's ...

Many believed that certain areas must have “frozen over” on Monday, but it was just an unprecedented move by Microsoft announcing that it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of ...

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 ...

On Thursday, Novell took the wraps off a channel-friendly virtualization solution in which SuSe Enterprise Linux Server runs as an optimized guest on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a move aimed squarely ...