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Many people have been saying for years that Microsoft should switch to an open source unix core to be more competitive and move faster like Apple (and because h
by patrickaljord 16y ago
Many people have been saying for years that Microsoft should switch to an open source unix core to be more competitive and move faster like Apple (and because hackers tend to prefer unix). I've always thought MS had enough money to stick with Windows and still move fast... but now I wonder, or maybe they're slow because of bureaucracy, probably a bit of both.
- jbri 16y agoMicrosoft is huge on backwards-compatibility. Unix guys don't mind breaking a few eggs when they release a new kernel because anything that breaks can be patched up to work again - but when you're running boatloads of proprietary software that has to keep working, break-and-fix isn't really a viable model any more.
- patrickaljord 16y ago> Microsoft is huge on backwards-compatibility. Are you sure about that? If I want to run old versions of IE, MS solution is to run a VM, probably because it's cheaper for them. At what point will it become more profitable for them to just tell people to use VMs for 20 year old software? Knowing that only businesses would need those.