What's the reason for the editorialised title? "Microsoft loves open source databases, joins MariaDB Foundation"
Marketing, this is a press release. OP is Michael "Monty" Widenius, founder of MySQL & MariaDB.
The actual title on microsoft.com, "MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: more choices on Microsoft Azure", has actually less marketing spin and more information.
I think because of the "Linux/Open Source is cancer" talk by Ballmer.
Almost 5years after Amazon loved MariaDB, now Microsoft fell in love with it too.
I'm skeptical when I hear "Microsoft loves Foo", because of how they've handled what they "love" before.