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For some things, yes.
While most of their back-end servers are running Windows, NetCraft shows some servers (such as download.microsoft.com) as running Linux. This is most likely due to their use of Akamai for content delivery, which has caching Linux servers in front of all sites.
Microsoft also has a farm of 10,000+ Linux servers that host the Skype infrastructure.
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