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LinuxCon: How Microsoft Is Contributing to Open Source

Coekaerts’ job is to help push enterprise open source forward, in terms of both continuing to improve Linux support on Microsoft’s Azure cloud as well as participating in the broader open-source community.

“Open source is no longer a stranger to Microsoft; it’s part of day-to-day life,” Coekaerts said. “I want people to know that this is a different Microsoft than you are used to.”

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