Wait... what?
Posted on 09/17/2017 5:04:32 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft, while maintaining its commitment to Windows, has made the necessary steps to not merely run on Linux but to help shape the future of Linux
Is Microsoft “the only [company] doing serious innovating with Linux?” That’s Jessie Frazelle’s contention. Frazelle, who rose to prominence in the developer community with Docker and later Google Cloud, made the bold claim to justify her departure to Microsoft. On its face it seems silly, an over-exuberant claim to justify a career move.
And yet it does suggest a very possible future where Microsoft doesn’t merely accept a peaceful coexistence with Linux, but instead enthusiastically embraces it as a key to its future.
No, I’m not talking about making things like SQL Server run on Linux. That’s table stakes for serving the polyglot reality of enterprise computing. Rather, Microsoft must make a real commitment to Linux, one that has it as an active, visible contributor thereto.
Fortunately, there are signs that this is starting to happen...
Is this a good thing, or the beginning of the old Microsoft technique of "EEE" (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish)???
Wait... what?
Will all apps and Easter Eggs end up in the kernal?
I give the "good thing" possibility about 5% chance. The "EEE" trend is too deeply established (entrenched might be a better word).
Another day, another avenue for fake news.
Never heard of Jessie and MS is not the only shop developing for Linux!
Anything Microsoft gets into I avoid
To me, Microsoft is a sort of Borg collective IRL, just less sleek and stylish.
The old Microsoft “Embrace, extend, extinguish” three-step.
I will not use any linux microsquish has touched.
EEE model won’t work against Linux because there are far too many other companies and Shareware operators out there for Microsoft to extinguish.
What Microsoft is up to I believe is, that they want to have a foot hold in Linux because too many companies and government orgs are going to Linux because they can not afford the MS licenses for all of their work stations.
MS wants to develop Linux based software to run on these machines.
If you can’t beat them join them.
Microsoft poised to screw up yet another computer innovation.
I give MS zero chance of swallowing Linux. Linux is already free and any use of it means agreeing to the copyleft contract.
Implying that Linux is an innovation. (It's not.)
It would be difficult for MS to “extinguish” Linux, but I suppose it might be possible. I know that you can install Ubuntu Linux natively on Windows 10 Pro as a service, MS SQL for Linux is coming, as is Powershell to natively run on Linux. There’s too big a server presence for Linux in the world for M$ to ignore.
Mark
Years ago, I had a shirt with this image,
and text that said, "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated."
Mark
I don't know about everything, but I know what MS did to Skype. In July I started taking a language course by Skype on my MacBookPro. Not only would it stop working approximately hourly, but it then refused to Quit. Force-Quit was necessary to get back to where Skype could be restarted.
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