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Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10
Martin Iturbide:
Hi
I was just reading this news at Slashdot.
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/03/30/1021224/confirmed-microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10
Poiting to this Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols article:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/
Sure, it is nothing technically amazing, it is like running Linux over Windows like we have Win16 on OS/2. Or will it be something different? But it shows something strange with Microsoft behaviour as we used to know them.
Will it be the "Embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy all over again? or will this mark the end of Window as we know it?
It is kind of fun to speculate on this subject.
Regards
Pete:
Hi Martin
I suspect it may be an M$ reaction to the number of people who initially "flirt" with linux and eventually move over to using linux entirely. I also gather Windows10 has not done as well as expected with users electing to stay with Win7/8 - or move to linux/Mac.
Giving Windows10 a linux "compatibility layer" could hit both above targets.
Regards
Pete
ivan:
It appears that they have written a command interpreter to run some Linux text mode tools just as we have a DOS command interpreter to run some DOS programs in OS/2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/30/bash_shell_comes_to_windows_10/ has a little more information.
Since they had the ability to run some simple OS/2 programs built into NT (which they didn't generally talk about) it is not surprising that they are doing this especially when they have ported their sql server over to Linux about a month ago.
ivan:
And now we have this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/31/microsoft_visual_studio_c_plus_plus_for_linux/
RickCHodgin:
Microsoft and Linux together? Nothing good can come from this partnership. It's a frightening move.
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
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