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If it gets us closer to being able to run native Office and Directx apps on Linux I'm all for it. Snap enforcement already scared me away from Ubuntu for the m

If it gets us closer to being able to run native Office and Directx apps on Linux I'm all for it. Snap enforcement already scared me away from Ubuntu for the most part anyway.

treyd 3y ago
This would be self-sabotage for Microsoft, it erodes their moat. If they actually cared about user producitivity and making those specific products as widely used as possible then it would be reasonable for people to expext this, but that's not their real goal. Acquiring Canonical changes nothing about their ability to make this happen, they could do it today, but their corporate strategy forbids it.
- abeyer 3y ago
  I dunno... Canonical + Ubuntu + Snap Store might be just the right amount of closed market to start to make this make sense to them.
notatoad 3y ago
office will become all electron apps before you get native office apps on linux
0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
Were I Microsoft, a custom Linux would be exclusively for server side benefits. Better/more integrated Azure tooling, native VS Code Remote Development containers, improved telemetry, native account/security provisioning, etc. No reason to tempt fate with better cross platform desktop efforts.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  They already have that, https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/06/azure-linux-cbl-mariner/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/06/azure-linux-cbl-mariner/
  - 0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
    TIL. Truly strange times.
pmontra 3y ago
Microsoft already has WSL2 so they can already run Office and Directx on the same box running Linux. I'm not sure that they have an incentive to make people run Office natively on a real Linux desktop. Wouldn't that lose some Windows customer? I think Office 365 already runs in browsers also on Linux but I never had a reason to check.

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If it gets us closer to being able to run native Office and Directx apps on Linux I'm all for it. Snap enforcement already scared me away from Ubuntu for the m

by gkhartman 3y ago

If it gets us closer to being able to run native Office and Directx apps on Linux I'm all for it. Snap enforcement already scared me away from Ubuntu for the most part anyway.

treyd 3y ago
This would be self-sabotage for Microsoft, it erodes their moat. If they actually cared about user producitivity and making those specific products as widely used as possible then it would be reasonable for people to expext this, but that's not their real goal. Acquiring Canonical changes nothing about their ability to make this happen, they could do it today, but their corporate strategy forbids it.
- abeyer 3y ago
  I dunno... Canonical + Ubuntu + Snap Store might be just the right amount of closed market to start to make this make sense to them.
notatoad 3y ago
office will become all electron apps before you get native office apps on linux
0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
Were I Microsoft, a custom Linux would be exclusively for server side benefits. Better/more integrated Azure tooling, native VS Code Remote Development containers, improved telemetry, native account/security provisioning, etc. No reason to tempt fate with better cross platform desktop efforts.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  They already have that, https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/06/azure-linux-cbl-mariner/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/06/azure-linux-cbl-mariner/
  - 0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
    TIL. Truly strange times.
pmontra 3y ago
Microsoft already has WSL2 so they can already run Office and Directx on the same box running Linux. I'm not sure that they have an incentive to make people run Office natively on a real Linux desktop. Wouldn't that lose some Windows customer? I think Office 365 already runs in browsers also on Linux but I never had a reason to check.