Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD

Microsoft has published its own distribution of FreeBSD 10.3 in order to make the OS available and supported in Azure.

Jason Anderson, principal PM manager at Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center says Redmond says Redmond “took on the work of building, testing, releasing and maintaining the image” so it could “ensure our customers have an enterprise SLA for their FreeBSD VMs running in Azure”. Microsoft did so “to remove that burden” from the FreeBSD Foundation, which relies on community contributions.