Microsoft has developed its own Linux

[securitybreach]

H3|| hath frozen over.....

 

Yesterday, I wrote about how things are changing at Microsoft as the company is opening up and making itself more comfortable supporting and adopting the open-source technologies. Along the similar lines, Microsoft has revealed that it has built its own Linux-based operating system. The company has developed Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), which is its own Linux-distro. The company calls it “a cross-platform modular operating system for data networking built on Linux.”

 

The company writes that Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) is their foray into building homegrown software for running devices like switches. The Linux-based ACS is a software to debug, fix and test software bugs much faster.

 

In its post about ACS, Microsoft didn’t tell why it needed to develop its own Linux distro. However, Kamala Subramanian, Redmond’s principal architect for Azure Networking says that ACS believes in the power of Open Networking and aims for Easier Configuration and Management. Using Linux, ACS is able to use the vibrant Linux ecosystem and support the Open Source and Third Party applications.

 

Azure Cloud Switch isn’t something that could be used on laptops or desktops, and it’ll be used for high-end enterprise network hardware of the Microsoft. It allows them to simplify the control of the hardware that powers their cloud-based services.......

 

 

http://fossbytes.com...e-cloud-switch/

 

[ebrke]

Azure Cloud Switch isn’t something that could be used on laptops or desktops . . .

No big surprise there.

[abarbarian]

Microsoft didn’t tell why it needed to develop its own Linux distro.

 

They are hardly likely to tell folks they need a penguin to mend their own os because their own products are not up to the job now are they.