The new Microsoft, under the leadership of Satya Nadella, is making surprising and positive moves. The company just announced a Linux powered operating system for data center networking. Kamala Subramaniam, Principal Architect, Azure Networking wrote on the company blog, "The Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) is our foray into building our own software for running network devices like switches.

this is from k-state libraries, so you will have to log in to read it. A 5.4-billion-transistor computer chip with 4096 neurosynaptic coresis is being made that is connected with an intrachip network.