Microsoft Updates Linux Code

"Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community in 2009.

"In a move many compared to seeing pigs fly, "Microsoft submitted source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services to the Linux Kernel Community last July to provide the integration that customers were looking for with Hyper-V," Brett Shoemaker of Microsoft wrote in a Port 25 blog post March 31. "The Integration Services (ISs) are now part of the Linux kernel (as of 2.6.32)." Shoemaker also said:

""Today's beta release of Integration Services adds the following new functionality:"

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