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> At this rate, are we going to see Windows open-sourced? Doubt it. In my personal opinion, they're just playing catch up and trying to grab a piece of the p
by digitalzombie 10y ago
> At this rate, are we going to see Windows open-sourced?
Doubt it.
In my personal opinion, they're just playing catch up and trying to grab a piece of the pie in the Server space that opensource have been gobbling up.
Linux got web server, cloud, scientific computing, big data (hadoop, spark, etc..), etc...
I believe they're releasing these open source so they can get people on their Azure cloud and get people into their microsoft ecosystem instead. They're emulating what makes Linux so popular, a good ecosystem and also opensource software.
I do not think they will give up Window for free or even opensource at all.
They was willing to lose the internet for desktop. Their mentality was everything goes through the desktop. Google and the internet proved them wrong and made app OS agnostic via webapp. They neglected search engine for desktop and Google ate it up. That's how crazy it is.
There's also a theory of how they dominated Gaming via DirectX so they can keep their OS popular. I doubt they would give up DirectX and gaming lead via opensource.
I think it's a good strategy but I personally love open source ecosystem much more than Microsoft and have trust issues with them in the past.
They're just playing catch up just like Bing vs Google, IE vs Mozilla, etc.. There's still money to be made even though there are clear leader in each space Microsoft neglected.
- dingo_bat 10y ago> I do not think they will give up Window for free Win 10 was free.
- dagw 10y agoWin 10 was free. It was a time limited free upgrade for people who already had a valid windows license. I don't think it it was free.
- 3825 10y agoI had the same misunderstanding as well. However, I think they ought keep Windows 10 Insider program available to everyone free of cost and without having to pay for a license. I feel like this will fall on deaf ears though. Microsoft watchers say Windows already treats stable as a testbed for the enterprise users who withhold updates for n days. So, a new update shows up without much testing, breaks a bunch of stuff on consumer hardware, Microsoft finds out thanks to logs or twitter chatter and fixes it, and everyone including enterprise hardware take the updates. I think eventually Windows being source available is possible but I doubt it will be free in a meaningful way.
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- billrobertson42 10y agoWhether they wanted it or not!
- prirun 10y agoSo was Microsoft Office when they were trying to put Lotus, Wordperfect, and every other word processor and spreadsheet out of business. And they succeeded. Follow the pied piper boys and girls...
- webmaven 10y agoDon't forget "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run!"
- joe563323 10y agoWhen MS-OFFICE falls, Game over.