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Will 2015 be the year of the Microsoft/Linux love fest?

There is one sentence that I swore I’d never write.

Microsoft loves Linux.

That’s right. During a webcast, new CEO Satya Nadella stood next to an image that said “Microsoft [heart symbol] Linux.” Understand, the presentation was all about Azure and the new services it has added to the system. Included with those new services were Linux-based systems (such as the Cloudera Hadoop package and the CoreOS Linux distribution) — so, it’s not like Microsoft is all of a sudden embracing Linux as a desktop OS

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