As someone wrote on Slashdot, “Perhaps the facts are different when it is your wallet the money is coming out of…”
Some selected quotes from an article in LinuxWorld:
- Microsoft and Aruba Networks jointly announced the two companies will work to replace Microsoft’s existing Cisco wireless network with Aruba’s centrally-managed infrastructure,
- Aruba mobility controllers run the Linux operating system,
- [Microsoft] is pleased to be partnering with Aruba in the upgrade of Microsoft’s next-generation wireless LAN,
- This partnership will allow Microsoft to leverage a cutting-edge wireless and mobility platform that provides us the scalability, performance and security that our environment demands…
Funny to think that “the next time Bill Gates sends an e-mail through Microsoft’s shiny new Wireless LAN it will be passed through a behind-the-scenes Linux-based network appliance” 
(Get the facts graphics courtesy of Microsoft)
Finally, they’ve got to work together but that’s just ‘une affaire d’argent’. It’s nothing about Microsoft recognising that Linux is better or so and so. MS will simply bet on installing that better product which happens to run on the Linux Operating System. Period.
And M$ will finally stop its Get the Facts! campaign based on commissioned (i.e. paid => not objective) reports?
I don’t think so… FUD!