The company will also have a virtual booth at the event

Jun 10, 2020 05:51 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft’s upcoming European Virtual Open Source Summit will take place online, and Ubuntu-maker Canonical is one of the companies that will attend it.

And today, Canonical announced that Christian Reis, VP Public Cloud, will also hold a keynote to discuss open source with Ubuntu Pro for Azure.

Furthermore, Canonical will have its own “virtual” booth at the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit, which means you can get in touch with company officials and discuss everything Ubuntu and open source.

“To meet the Canonical team, talk Ubuntu, Kubernetes, WSL or more generally open source in the cloud, come hang out around the Ubuntu virtual booth. Technical experts, PMs, evangelists, cloud specialists will be ready for your questions,” Canonical explains.

The event will take place on June 16 exclusively online due to obvious reasons – Microsoft itself has also moved several other major conferences to the WWW, including Build, which is the company’s biggest annual event where it gets in touch with developers from all over the world.

Microsoft loves Linux

Microsoft has become more committed to the Linux and open-source world, and Windows 10 itself is living proof in this regard, as it comes with several features to connect these ecosystems. The second-generation Windows Subsystem for Linux is now part of Windows 10 version 2004, allowing users to run Linux on top of Windows 10 with a built-in Linux kernel.

Needless to say, Canonical is one of Microsoft’s most important partners in this push, and Ubuntu, for example, is already fully compatible with WSL. Furthermore, Canonical keeps investing in this strategy as well by developing products like Ubuntu Pro for Azure.

Additional information on the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit is available on the official website here, while the full agenda has already been published on this page.