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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...