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It may sound unrealistic, but, this article and the overall tendencies in MS products gave me a weird idea that indeed someone in the position of power has deci
by IYasha 5y ago
It may sound unrealistic, but, this article and the overall tendencies in MS products gave me a weird idea that indeed someone in the position of power has decided to gradually bury Windows as a platform and shift people to Linux. Sounds like a nerd dream, but, something doesn't seem right with all of this...
- cm2187 5y agoIt may be that the cost of maintaining this humongous pile of legacy code isn't justified by the revenues they think they can extract from it.
- Torwald 5y agoI think this is the right answer, compared with something the grandgrandparent touched upon: windows apps from third party vendors do not act as competitive advantage anymore. (This us also due to how Windows OEM contracts work.)
- mulmen 5y agoEmbrace, Extend, Extinguish. Microsoft is not an ally Linux needs.
- smegger001 5y agoBecause it will be in the form of a locked down android or chromebook-alike, where you don't have root/admin access or control of the device. Turns out Richard Stallman was right again Tivoization is bad. To bad Stallman has the charisma of well Stallman rather than say Jobs, the world would be a better place.