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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...