Windows goes open source? Microsoft plays coy

During a technology panel session in Silicon Valley, Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich, CTO for the company’s Azure cloud platform, did what Microsoft officials have been prone to doing in recent years: Preach Microsoft’s conversion from open source skeptic to proponent. Open source, Russinovich said at the Chef Conf 2015 conference, was “no longer taboo” at the commercial software giant, pointing to Microsoft’s accommodations for open source, such as having Linux account for roughly 20 percent of virtual machines deployed on Azure.