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Microsoft should have his own Linux version, supported by the company. It will be inevitable.

• TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  Maybe they'll clone RHEL like Oracle did.
• edpichler 10y ago
  I received down votes with my serious comment. "Microsoft joined Linux foundation" today: http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation-as-a-platinum-member/ http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-...
• jlgaddis 10y ago
  Instead of that, I can see them partnering up with Red Hat (and/or Canonical) to handle it. All of Microsoft's "<foo>-on-Linux" offering (i.e. SQL Server, .NET, etc.) will be officially supported on RHEL (and/or Ubuntu), just like many other enterprise-type products today are officially supported only on RHEL.
• TheRealDunkirk 10y ago
  The only point of offering it would be to support running desktop applications on it, like Word and Excel, no? And that's such a stretch that all the versions of Wine still haven't solved the problem, even after 20 years. At this point, if Apple really wanted to scrape another percentage of desktop users away from Microsoft, THEY could release an unsupported, white-box version of the BSD-based macOS for generic PC hardware, which would run all normal macOS binaries, like Word and Excel. It would go a long way to shoring up the gap in their lagging "pro" line...
  • pritambaral 10y ago
    > all the versions of Wine still haven't solved the problem, even after 20 years. Wine isn't Microsoft, and doesn't have access to Windows internal code. If Microsoft decided to write a Windows compatibility layer for non-Windows OSes, it wouldn't have to reverse-engineer. That is an immense difference in terms of amount of effort.