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Dear new corporate overlord, if you want to disprove this, please invest in wine! It is an alternative option that would yield great dividends for both linux a
by 1996 7y ago
Dear new corporate overlord, if you want to disprove this, please invest in wine!
It is an alternative option that would yield great dividends for both linux and windows user. win32 binaries are just more multiplatform that .net/uwp/the next shiny new thing you will try and fail to spin.
- TomMarius 7y agoI think they want to go the HyperV route for this purpose, wine is not really the solution a company like Microsoft would choose (based on their business needs). HyperV based hybrid desktop seems to be much easier to develop, maintain, sell etc.
- 1996 7y agoEasier, maybe, but it will not succeed. hyperv will be the next big shiny thing to fail. Meanwhile, wine keep my old binaries useful - and will keep them long after uwp or whatever shades into obscurity.
- TomMarius 7y agoI kind of agree with you, but that does not change anything about it being the strategy of choice for Microsoft
- my123 7y agoSQL Server for Linux is the Windows version running on the NT user-mode kernel. (see Drawbridge)
- simion314 7y agoAt least they could make it so there is no more FUD about wine, give Wine a license to reverse engineer or use the existing leaked code as they want.