InfoWorld: What has Microsoft contributed?
Rabellino: We have contributed drivers for Hyper-V, for our virtualization layer. You can run Linux as a guest operating system on a Hyper-V hypervisor.
InfoWorld: What does the Git embrace in Visual Studio mean?
Rabellino: It's part of the way that Microsoft has changed as a company and become more open. There is an important trend, this important trend is distributed version control and there is a well-established player out there. Developers are depending on it. They know it. They like it, so we're going to support it.
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