Nope, that's not a typo in the headline. Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree, the company announced on the opening day of the OSCON open-source conference.
The biggest addition to the release of Linux kernel 2.4.1 is a journaling file system that allows administrators to more quickly recover data in the event of system failure.
Ars Technica has unearthed a nice set of Best Buy training slides from Microsoft: Ones aimed at teaching store employees how to pitch Windows 7 PCs vs. Macs. Given how much time, effort and money Microsoft is spending to fight Apple, these docs are a lot more relevant than the Linux ones circulating earlier this week.
After releasing with much fanfare 20,000 lines of driver code under the GNU General Public License (GPL) for inclusion in the Linux kernel, Microsoft hasn't followed through with the necessary updates and fixes required by the community, according to one Linux leader.
On July 6, Microsoft removed a seeming licensing hurdle for Mono by putting the licensing of the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) and the C# programmng language under its "Community Promise."
Linux 2.4 isn't soup yet. So Linux distributors are finding themselves faced with the choice of building products around the older kernel or the beta, bleeding-edge version.
Two years ago this month, in November 2006, Microsoft inked its controversial cross-licensing pact with Novell. Since the agreement was forged, a lot has happened.
The embattled Canadian software maker will reveal its new and improved 'corporate growth strategy' early Tuesday, but any major pronouncements will probably have to wait.
Microsoft and Red Hat have signed a deal to insure that their respective server operating systems will run on each other's hypervisors.
Due to the downturn in the economy, many business users are putting the kibosh on migrations to or from open source. That's one of Microsoft's findings from its own customer research upon which its execs plan to expound during this week's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC).