In the history of Linux Weekly News, is currently only available to subscribers, an analysis of Linux 3.0 of the respondents revealed that Microsoft was the fifth largest corporate supporter of Linux 3.0. Although only the 15h general, which still bears behind only Microsoft, Red Hat, Intel, Novell and IBM to promote a new code for the Linux version.
To be exact, Microsoft developer K. Srinivasan and gets credit for helping to improve Linux. Of course, as you can imagine, neither Microsoft nor Srinivasan doing this for all the special love Linux Tor itself.
The vast majority of the contributions of Microsoft was its own Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor drivers. Hyper-V is Microsoft 64-bit system based virtualization hypervisor. This is Microsoft's response to Linux and VMware Kernel-based Virtualization Manager K (KVM).
Microsoft wants you to see that it is possible Linux to run two instances of Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to run instances of Linux with their own tools virtualizaton. Microsoft has been working on this for some time with Novell, SUSE today.
Initially, the source code was not open to everyone, but in 2009 it was discovered that some code was already in the GPL Linux drivers Hyper-V. Thus, "In a break from the ordinary, Microsoft has released 20,000 lines of code device driver for the Linux community. The code, which includes three device drivers for Linux, was presented to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linus tree. The drivers are available for the Linux community and customers, and improve performance when virtualized Linux operating system in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 R2 or Hyper-V. "
It helped, of course, Microsoft still reluctantly was forced to work with Linux to try to maintain their market share. As Matt Asay, a senior executive of open source and the author said at the time, "The news reflects Microsoft's continued interest in virtualization lobotomizing competition with low prices, but also a recognition that it should open if it is to counter strategies of the insurgents virtualization Red Hat, Novell and others in the field of open source. "
In the months after that, although Microsoft has done little to improve their code. In fact Greg Kroah-Hartman, who oversees the intermediate code for the Linux kernel, sometimes complained that "[Microsoft] developers seem to have disappeared again, it gets old," and threatened to remove the code from Linux.
Microsoft has apparently finally got the message. In recent months, they worked hard to improve the Hyper-V and Linux interoperability.
This may not be the last, and it's really just Microsoft's own objectives, but now Microsoft, yes Microsoft is a leading contributor to Linux. Now, in these days of miracles, let me see if I can get my dog to stop barking at my neighbors cats.
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