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In an today's announcement, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich proclaimed the need for "a consistent microservices application platform and management experience across enterprise IT infrastructure," whatever the operating system or programming language. [ InfoWorld celebrates Linux at 25: A pictorial history. | How Linux changed the world. | Linus Torvalds on the evolution and future of Linux. | Containers and unikernels prove less is more. | Quick guide to Linux admin essentials. | Stay up on open source with the InfoWorld Linux report. ] Microsoft's motivation for this move is the same one that was behind the release of an edition of SQL Server for Linux: "Most enterprises today host a mixture of Windows Server and Linux servers," Russinovich said, and Microsoft is depriving itself of opportunities by not delivering products specifically for that platform.