No the date is not April 1st, Microsoft have donated 20,000 lines of code under the GPLv 2 license. These are Linux device drivers so that a Linux guest will get enhanced performance on top of hyper-V, Microsoft's virtualisation hypervisor:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx</a><br><br>What's next? Steve Ballmer using Ubuntu on his laptop!<br>
<br>Gordon<br>