Microsoft to support Linux with Virtual Server

It would appear that MS support for Linux is not going anyplace. According to InfoWorld, Virtual Server 2005 R2 will be supporting Linux wholeheartedly.

The next release of Microsoft’s (Profile, Products, Articles) Virtual Server product will support the virtualization of both Linux (Overview, Articles, Company) and Sun Microsystems (Profile, Products, Articles) Inc.’s Solaris operating systems on servers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS), a company spokesman said in an interview Wednesday.

Microsoft on Wednesday also announced a new name for the next interim release of the product, formerly called Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1. Microsoft is now calling it Virtual Server 2005 R2, news unveiled by Microsoft in a keynote by Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s (Profile, Products, Articles) Digital Enterprise Group, at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco.

Microsoft changed the name because the release will include significantly more enhancements than a usual service pack, said Zane Adam, director of marketing in the Windows Server division of Microsoft. The software giant typically offers service packs and interim releases called “R2s” between major updates to its server products. [Read the rest]