The company is now working to port the Hadoop platform to Windows — it was built for use atop Linux — and Doug Leland, general manager of product management for

The company is now working to port the Hadoop platform to Windows — it was built for use atop Linux — and Doug Leland, general manager of product management for SQL Server, told Wired that the company plans to eventually release its work back to the open source community. Haha, some things never change. A code dump of major changes developed in isolation. I'm sure the Hadoop commuity will love that.