https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/freebsd-now-available-in-azure-marketplace/
It's not uncommon for IAAS guys to roll their own OSS images for better support, and that's great, for Microsoft too! (even though I'm not exactly what you would call a fan) ... but this part kinda made me cringe:
I'm a newbie and I've kept it purely technical so far, but some things one just can't help but be highly opinionated about... I'm highly suspicious of anything Microsoft touch even when they appear to be generous, that's a reputation they have earned, they have caused me too much pain - generally I want nothing to do with them.
I completely understand that's probably an unwelcome opinion compared to helping hands and bug fixes. Perhaps someone more informed could save me from running away screaming and let us know the extent of their contributions to the kernel and their planned future involvement in kernel development on FreeBSD.
In-case this is inadvertently my last post: thanks for everything your all good folks

It's not uncommon for IAAS guys to roll their own OSS images for better support, and that's great, for Microsoft too! (even though I'm not exactly what you would call a fan) ... but this part kinda made me cringe:
The majority of the investments we make at the kernel level to enable network and storage performance were up-streamed into the FreeBSD 10.3 release, so anyone who downloads a FreeBSD 10.3 image from the FreeBSD Foundation will get those investments from Microsoft built in to the OS
I'm a newbie and I've kept it purely technical so far, but some things one just can't help but be highly opinionated about... I'm highly suspicious of anything Microsoft touch even when they appear to be generous, that's a reputation they have earned, they have caused me too much pain - generally I want nothing to do with them.
I completely understand that's probably an unwelcome opinion compared to helping hands and bug fixes. Perhaps someone more informed could save me from running away screaming and let us know the extent of their contributions to the kernel and their planned future involvement in kernel development on FreeBSD.
In-case this is inadvertently my last post: thanks for everything your all good folks

