Microsoft has released its own custom distribution of FreeBSD 10.3 as a “ready-made” Virtual Machine image in order to make the operating system available directly from the Azure Marketplace. The company has previously worked on supporting FreeBSD on Hyper-V as a virtual machine that was aimed at ensuring software appliance partners’ kit functioned smoothly in Azure. Microsoft did so to remove “burden” from the FreeBSD Foundation that fully relies on community contributions, says Jason Anderson, Principal PM Manager at Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/microsoft-azure-freebsd.html