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IDG Contributor Network: How Microsoft helped Docker with LinuxKit and Moby Project

Today, supporting Linux is as critical to Microsoft as it is to Red Hat and SUSE. (Linux  now runs on one out of three machines in Azure cloud.)Surprisingly, Microsoft is doing an incredible job showing how critical Linux is to Azure's success. On the developer side, Microsoft worked with Canonical to build a subsystem for Linux so developers can use Linux utilities and tools natively on Windows 10 without having to make compromises with virtual machines or workarounds like Cygwin. On
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