Tech Ping
Ping, for old times’ sake.
Kind of copying Apple? Windows should have been unix based eon’s ago.
Tech talk. Interesting. I’m not to preschool yet. I know nuttin’. Thanks for posting. Now that I’m retired, I have more time. Thanks to all techies/posters.
If everything goes to Software as a Service, doesn’t that imply everyone’s Internet connection has to be super-fast and 100% reliable? Won’t the slightest connectivity deficiency be a bottleneck for many people? Just curious how this will work in the real world.
Nooooo!!! I still have nightmares from that crap.
I’ll continue to use Win 7 until video games stop working on it.
What about Windows-based Linux?
bkmk
But will it run Doom?
keep windows away from my linux
So effectively put a windowing UI on a Unix Kernel?
Hmmmm. You mean like OSX?
Frankly, I’m not really too terribly interested in microsoft co-opting Linux. Microsoft has long been known, from a programming perspective, to be able to screw up an anvil. I can see all kinds of stupidity like the ‘registry’ being shoehorned into Linux environments. Can’t say I’m a big fan of the entire embrace, extend, extinguish philosophy of microsoft culture.
Besides, they don’t even know how to properly delimit a directory. Everyone knows you use a /, not a \.
Thanks! bfl
I can see this happening and had actually come to this same conclusion myself a while back. This would be a hugely positive development for Linux in the sense that hardware support for new devices in the Linux kernel would now be mandatory for any device maker. It could be a negative as well with the Microsoft tail wagging the Linux dog.
The interesting question is does this brave new world have NTFS still with its case insensitivity and backwards slashes and Powershell as its scripting language? I wager that it would as that migration would be too hard. And also consider things like Exchange and AD. So even if this did happen it’s still gonna seem like yukky windoze to me.
We could call it XWindows
Dropped Windows over a year ago and boot up and run Linux off an SSD.
With Microsoft Windows 10 and office 365 you are being spied on 24/7. Everyday on my work pc I get ‘Not responding’ message using Outlook or Word or Excel. It always phones home delaying you from getting what you want done. Teams is another one. The company also can track you. Too much micro management.
Oracle software is always spying as well. If your company switches to these two software companies your IT dept and billing and payroll etc will mostly vanish and going to India.
Happening to the company I work at.