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 ...

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, ...

The company has ramped up kernel contributions in hopes of adding Hyper-V drivers, which it has worked on for more than two years Microsoft isn’t exactly dumping Windows for Linux, but it has become ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft this month talked about how its latest Hyper-V and System Center 2012 R2 improvements can help with the management of Linux and Unix servers. Michael Kelley, a lead program manager for ...

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 ...

I’ve written many posts about my adventures in virtualized server building and management over the past couple of years. Mostly to document what I’ve learned and to see what others are doing. Things ...

Adam Z. Lein has been a tech journalist at Pocketnow since 2002. He's also been a photographer since 1995 and a web developer & graphic designer since 1997 while working on the DEC intranet. He's also ...