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Microsoft's hard turn for the best is a weird mirror image of Google's hard turn for the worst. It almost makes me want to give Windows a try again (ha not rea
by BenoitEssiambre 7y ago
Microsoft's hard turn for the best is a weird mirror image of Google's hard turn for the worst.
It almost makes me want to give Windows a try again (ha not really). But I'd try a "Microsoft Linux" desktop (which no longer sounds like a ridiculous concept), before I would try Chrome OS.
- ticmasta 7y agoI think that, in addition to mobile devices, the browser is the new desktop and MS has conceded that to Google with Edge to be built on Chromium, so the chance of a MS Linux seem slim. Bill Gates always talked about beating competitors by commoditizing their offering; I think you're seeing MS do that to themselves with containerization built on linux or at the most nanoserver. It may take twenty years to kill off the last version in corporate IT, but windows desktop is dead.
- e12e 7y agoWith wsl, "Microsoft Linux" is running Linux binaries on a windows NT derived kernel. With a release of sql server running under Linux, and Linux binaries running on windows under wsl - I'm not sure what Microsoft would want with a Microsoft Linux distribution (Linux kernel running gnu/Linux user land)?