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Meet Microsoft's Linux Lab Head Bill Hilf

Posted by timothy on from the eye-on-the-competition dept.

morcego writes "Yahoo News has a very interesting interview with Bill Hilf, Microsoft's director of Microsoft's platform technology strategy group, who in turn works for Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy and Linux point man. From the interview: '"I am a non-Microsoft guy working at Microsoft," Hilf said.'"

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  1. Re:Useless article! by badriram · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well if you have time, go on to Channel 9 and take at look his interview, including the linux lab itself..

  2. For those who are interested in the MS Linux Lab by amliebsch · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out the video on Channel 9. >a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostI D=65355">http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?Po stID=65355 They talk about some stuff, then go inside the lab, where they are testing clustering on a Linux distro and have racks and racks of different distros (and reveal that the copmany favorite is apparently...Gentoo!)

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