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Partner Blog | Power more business transformations with Linux on Microsoft Azure

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Mar 27, 2025

By, Ann Choi, General Manager, Microsoft Commercial Cloud and Solution Areas

In recent years, Microsoft has made significant investments to empower organizations to transform their businesses through innovation by running their Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure.

 

At Microsoft, the open-source software development model helps us create sustainable and successful projects. Some of our most widely adopted and vibrant developer tools and frameworks, such as GitHub, Visual Studio Code, and .NET, are open source.

 

Our product teams actively contribute across various open-source domains, from operating systems to programming languages, and from data and AI to the web. A good example is the Azure Database for PostgreSQL engineering team that actively contributes to various PostgreSQL development projects and participates in numerous initiatives aimed at enhancing code quality. This includes modernizing PostgreSQL APIs, improving the build system, enhancing continuous integration and continuous delivery, handling bug reports, and addressing performance regressions. You can read more about the team’s contributions here.

 

As a Microsoft partner, you play a crucial role in guiding, educating, and supporting customers as they learn to leverage these advancements. In this blog, we’ll delve into the opportunity for you to help customers speed up innovation and gain a competitive edge. 

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