Wait... what?
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.
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
I am trying to use Linux Mint,
but I also need support for a landline modem.
any suggestions on how to get Linux
working with a modem?
it’s a good thing. Microsoft has changed under Satya Nadella
They’ll incorporate Edge directly within the kernel guaranteeing that every Linux system can be hacked at its very core.
It’s a good thing.
Linux VMs are very much a part of the Azure cloud. Microsoft is even going to open up a certification track for Linux administrators.
Stay tuned! There’s much to follow. Ignite is next week, and Satya’s going to present on this in the Keynote. I am going to this.
Oh Geesh, now I read the response to your question/post.
Not you, but this is why I quit your ping list.
Almost every reply is a BASH (get it?) of Microsoft.
It gets old. Sure, they suck. It’s Microsoft, right? And Bill Gates left a decade ago.
But when they finally get some good leadership (Satya), no one notices or cares.
Note to people posting: Microsoft is NOT an end user company like Apple. Comparing the two is like comparing apples to oranges, sort to speak.
I love Apple devices. Great stuff! However, IT isn’t just about sitting at home using your iPad or finding a new app for the iPhone. IT is about using systems and devices to make the business more efficient and thus more profitable—as opposed to having to shut down.
Because of the rapid growth in cloud services, and now the fuller, more robust integration of cloud with on-premises servers, this push by Microsoft just makes sense. Those servers run ether Windows Server or Linux. For others (more and more) BOTH.
BTW, to people who use MACs and then run a Windows virtual machine, well, Microsoft loves you for it. You still have to have a Microsoft license to do so. They make as much money, if not more, from those licenses than a big OEM like Dell or HP.