Microsoft's reluctant penguin dance

Linux is everywhere and knowingly or not, most people depend on it for many things. Web, database, file, auth and print servers to embedded firmware in routers, cameras, game consoles and phones, to name a few. Linux already touches our lives daily.

Poor Microsoft have fought Linux hard for many years, first with invincible ignorance, then with FUD attacks that continue to this day. However, somewhat secretly, they also are blessed by the penguin and use it to keep themselves alive.

The Halo movie, based on the Xbox game by Microsoft will directed by Peter Jackson. Weta Digital will do all the effects - on 1000 dual-processor IBM blade servers running the Fedora distro of Linux. Most of Hollywood use this kind of Linux based renderfarm.

This certainly isn't the first time Microsoft have had to run to the penguin for assistance. In 2003 Microsoft were in turmoil after weeks of significant and intense worm and virus attacks directed squarely at them. In their need for a cure, they turned to Akamai to hide behind.