Ulterior motives? Perish the thought!

Microsoft has released GPL v2 drivers for the Linux operating system they hope will be integrated into the OS. Normally that’d frighten folks away but it’s a purely business focused gesture as the drivers are designed to improve how Linux performs on the company’s Hyper-V virtualization platform.

A sensible move by the company given how much of the current and future server market will be based on virtualization of services which means they can’t choose to ignore Linux, or any other OS for that matter, if they want their customers to continue to use their server products.

Source: Microsoft