>Discuss
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Hunter Adams
Jonathan Thompson
Reminder that MS was basically an UNIX shop in the 1980s and very early 1990s
Jordan Jackson
more like microsoft needs linux to be competitive in the business market
linux is the chad
Matthew Torres
Aw yiss Xenix
Carson Ward
EMBRACE
Asher Thompson
Didn't torvalds say he would know he had won when Microsoft started doing Linux? Or something like that?
Thomas Moore
> A multi billion dollar corporation needs an open-source project to be competitive in business market
Stay delusional freetards
Wyatt Sullivan
imagine being this brain damaged
Brody Perez
Still doesn't work well enough for my needs. My hope is that Microsoft will nix (no pun intended) their frankenstein 10 system and build a totally new system from the ground up, with talented devs, not pajeet code monkeys, and a sane design. No more having to restart every time you install something or change a setting, for example. That's just one of many many complaints I have.
Easton Sanders
Sneaky bastards buying influence.
Only brainlets trust that "love" shit.
Linux Foundation actually loves Microsoft. They get lots of money from them. I doubt Torvalds would make any Microsoft jokes today.
Carter Young
Clearly one of these dominates most markets. Guess which one.
Gavin Green
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Landon Thompson
A windows on *nix would be a linux distro riced to look like windows. That's the max you're going to get
Daniel Gutierrez
You realize that RedoxOS is going to btfo both Windows and Linux, right?
Hudson Cook
GNU/Linux*
Benjamin Taylor
Fuck off stallman
Thomas Flores
> Still doesn't work well enough for my needs
Good. MS must not kill Linux.
Matthew Peterson
Literally what?
Ian Jones
>build a totally new system from the ground up, with talented devs, not pajeet code monkeys, and a sane design
They are moving in the exact opposite direction though: make everything a walled garden like iOS. Secure boot and ARM PCs.
MS plans to drop the Win32 API in the next few years anyway, what will stay is the metro framework that could theoretically run on a new kernel too. They will get LOTS of revenue since everything will have to be sold through their store where they get 30% of of a sale
Tyler Gomez
+1 sheckel into your microsoft account
James Campbell
>he doesn't know about Redox OS
Ian Flores
you're retarded if you think this is happening
like
actually fucking retarded
Tyler Rivera
I'll just leave this here for you underage kids
en.m.wikipedia.org
TL;DR: Microsoft since 1998, planned this in order to absolve linux
Evan Perry
Sure
Even though MS was shilling this thing already a year ago and betatesting it with the surface RT
Right, fucking retarded
Enjoy your mandatory upgrade to the """secure""" windows 10 S in 1-2 years
By the way, MS is already beginning to remove features from the pro version of 10 and making them enterprise only
Brayden Hall
>I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. I believe in open development, and that very much involves not just making the source open, but also not shutting other people and companies out. There are 'extremists' in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.
>Linus
Ethan Foster
"Nix" as in the definition of the word, not *nix systems. That's why I said "no pun intended"
Ayden Hughes
Being so brainwashed that you actually believe a multi billion dollar company does anything witout the goal of profit
Nathan Sullivan
>we put in a slightly modified VM
>this is totes ambitious guize pls love us
Owen Walker
Why ? We're in agreement, but thank you for the source either way.
Logan Miller
It's literally just a copy of cygwin
No idea why people praise it as some kind of revolution, guess they don't actually use it but are just shilling
Carson Morris
Kevin Butler
It is unironically the best of both worlds
Benjamin Brooks
worst*
Blake Young
The whole thing makes it easy to distinguish who in the community is a sheckle hungry faggot and who cares about free software. The only good part of the drama.
Carson Harris
William Ramirez
"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won." - Linus Torvalds
edition.cnn.com
That article is a relic.
Logan Moore
Traitor!
Stallman is all we've got now. ;_;
Hudson Peterson
It's definitely better than cygwin, but it's not a lot better.
Cooper Stewart
one more left
Zachary Jones
What I don't get about this is if Linux, irrespective of what distro, is (according to M$) so insignificant why the fuck are M$ so hell bent on trying to get rid of it ?. It doesn't make logical sense.
Leo Reed
And adopting linux will help them. What's your point?
At this point they stand more to gain by supporting linux than not. It's good business.
Christian Martin
...EXTINGUISH
Austin Robinson
dude it's been 20 years now. the kids fresh out of college that microsoft hires today weren't even born. microsoft just fears linux might pose some threat in the current situation due to the disaster that was windows 10, it's been worse than the vista era. at this point i bet they just wanna secure the server market share, there's no point releasing new versions of windows for consumer desktop since people are increasingly moving to mobile, which has already taken over.
linux will be fine.
Christopher Wilson
Because enterprise is where the real shekels are, and linux dominates there.
Gabriel James
>linux dominates there
"No."
Cameron Young
>Windows Desktop share : 91%
What's your point?
Isaiah Peterson
They can implement DirectX, Visual C++ libraries and Microsoft shit in general and make it work exactly like Windows.
Josiah Evans
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Kevin Nguyen
we are in the "Embrace" phase, right?
Tyler Campbell
Josiah Harris
It'll be no different from your regular Linux distro
Ethan Evans
Desktops are dying. Microsoft has literally no market on Smartphones and a little share of enterprise.
Gabriel Adams
it wasn't much more difficult before, t.b.h, you just had to pay more attention
Brody Hall
MS shooting their own feet? that'd be truly awesome
Lincoln Ross
Windows cooperates with laptop manufacturers to hijack Linux installation
Jackson Ramirez
What did they mean by this? Is sincere ask
Isaac Gutierrez
>muh marketshare is gonna stay without innovation
remember kodak?
is right.
I wish they didn't just let windows phone die, it was nice to use.
Nathaniel Phillips
>tfw still have a Kodak
Benjamin Diaz
Microsoft unironically impress me with their server numbers
Blake Green
>remember kodak?
Well imagine if the only thing sold anywhere was kodak-only film and later memory cards. And later kodak only apps for smartphones.
Windows has gaymes, office and adobe, it's going nowhere.
Charles Young
Those number most likely include old government internet-facing servers and inter-company management servers / file servers. Most internet-facing servers are Linux.