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by jacques_chester 3354 days ago
Microsoft, like Google, is working with several opensource platform providers.

Because they're selling time on an IaaS. They don't have to pick winners when they present a fungible pool of resources.

By way of analogy, BP and Shell don't care where their petrol gets burnt. Ford, GM, it's all the same to them.

Disclosure: I work on such a platform, Cloud Foundry, on behalf of Pivotal. We have a close working relationship with both Microsoft and Google.