Microsoft said it is developing a virtualization allows Windows to run on Linux systems, but also that no one will want to run these products on the desktop.
eWeek's Sam Ramji said Microsoft's director of open source software lab, said customers want to mix products to meet the needs of their data center applications. However, Microsoft did not see the desktop Linux applications or Linux-based desktop virtualization greater demand.
He said he had received them from the Linux community developers request and sharing of execution from the customer and meeting customer feedback is that they only need for the desktop. Net and Java for interoperability.