News, of the apparent acquiescence of Microsoft Corporation’s (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Windows Azure group; detailing the acceptance of the inevitable: Linux distribution support on the Redmond Washington software behemoths’ cloud environ. While Microsoft Corporation’s support for Linux and UNIX® environment is not new (witness both the company’s New Business Ventures - in actuality - start-ups and mature company’s Microsoft has purchased [that maintain their own Linux and UNIX® infrastructures - until they are fully assimilated], but also the in-built programmatical support within the POSIX.1-2008 environ as well.
