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A win-win solution would be for Microsoft to concentrate its resources on the 'Windows' GUI layer built on top of a GNU-Linux OS. That would reduce their progr
by simonblack 5y ago
A win-win solution would be for Microsoft to concentrate its resources on the 'Windows' GUI layer built on top of a GNU-Linux OS.
That would reduce their programmer requirements because they would no longer be working on the OS, but only on the GUI. That is pretty much what Apple did around 20 years ago with OSX. It would also permit them to make new releases every year or so, instead of every 5 years.
Meanwhile the world's open-source resources will maintain the underlying GNU-Linux OS that Microsoft, like every other software company, can freely use.