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A Microsoft developer network blog speaks about availability of a functional language by MS on FreeBSD.

Verily, the last times have come, and MS is turning into IBM! :)

(BTW MS maintain an internal Linux distribution, among other things. Probably we should expect more things like this.)

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Another Microsoft developer has been working on Hyper-V drivers for FreeBSD, which've recently been merged into the master branch: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/hyperv/dist/

Once they're polished, I hope we'll see FreeBSD VMs supported on Azure!

Once they're polished, you can just make sure it runs on your local copy of Hyper-V, then upload a VHD yourself. Azure's underrated on things like this.

They also use NetBSD internally, and indeed contributed a port: http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/support_for_microsoft_emips...

Does MS really have an internal Linux distro? Do you know what they use it for?

http://www.mslinux.org/

they've even got commits in the Linux kernel!

They have commits in the kernel just because they want to run Linux on Hyper-V and they need drivers to support it.

They we're later criticized for not maintaining the code and etc. But after that I think that MS improved the code and continued commiting updates.

A friend of mine that works in MS uses it for Skype-related development. MS have deployed a number of Linux-based Skype supernodes to improve connectivity.

MS actually has a deep Unix history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

Well, that's not linux though.

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