Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 17:13 UTC
Microsoft has a big surprise planned for not just those of its own customers using virtualization, but for those in the open-source community as well. On April 3, the software giant will use the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston to announce that it is making its Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition product available as a free download from the Microsoft Web site. On a related note, "XenSource has prepped its first major charge at Microsoft Windows customers with a new package that includes the open source Xen hypervisor along with some management software."
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2005-07-06
Hell seems to be freezing over quite a bit lately in the technology world, which is a good thing. Everyone (for the first time in a long time, perhaps ever) is playing relatively nice with each other. Of course only time will tell, but it's a nice change.
But to answer your question, MS has been working on Services for Unix for quite a while now (substitute *nix for Unix as it works for Linux as well). I'm sure they had to do plenty of development on *nix boxen to get the product finished.