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It might well be embrace, extend, extinguish. But if so, in this instance it isn't Microsoft's doing it. The embrace started long ago, with things like Samba,
by rstuart4133 7y ago
It might well be embrace, extend, extinguish. But if so, in this instance it isn't Microsoft's doing it.
The embrace started long ago, with things like Samba, a free implementation of vfat, Wine and Active Directory. Extend also started long ago, with things like, getting gcc to run on it, cygwin, the LAMP stack, Firefox - lots of things that let Windows do things only Linux boxes could do, and for free.
Then came extinguish. WinCE followed by WinPhone, and now 1/2 of Azure runs Linux boxes which I guess pretty much signals the fate of Windows on the server arena. Whereas two decades ago most computers an end user interacted with run Windows now they don't.