Microsoft Linux???

[William]

What would happen to the Linux world if Microsoft were to write its own version of Linux that could live perfectly in a Windows world and run Windows Office applications?

William

 

[Guest]

I'm not sure that MS would devote a team to that. But that would be a scary
thought. Secertly, MS hates Linux, or anything open-source for matter, with a
passion. Remember when MS went on a rampage, saying "Linux is unreliable and
a poor choice"? LOL

 

[Will]

It's a secret.

What would happen to the Linux world if Microsoft were to write its own
version of Linux that could live perfectly in a Windows world and run
Windows Office applications?

William

 

[William]

Except, of course, if they wrote their own distribution and desktop, perhaps porting the Windows desktop to a Linux distribution.

William
I'm not sure that MS would devote a team to that. But that would be a scary
thought. Secertly, MS hates Linux, or anything open-source for matter, with a
passion. Remember when MS went on a rampage, saying "Linux is unreliable and
a poor choice"? LOL

 

[Chat]

What would happen to the Linux world if Microsoft were to write its own
version of Linux that could live perfectly in a Windows world and run
Windows Office applications?

William

I am guessing that Kevin kid would be really pissed becuase I'm sure M/S
would send him a copy - IMO, FWIW, EIEIO, FYI, TTYL

 

[Guest]

Depending if Microsoft released a Server Edition; then Suse, Redhat, etc.
would feel it. That is assuming that Microsoft handled the code correctly for
the kernal and shell.... they have alittle trouble doing that now. Linux will
always survive, Linux users wouldn't flock to a Windows running Linux code.

 

[John Jay Smith]

Microsoft already has invested on this.. but its not known to the public...

every big company has to investigate its options and alternative technologies...

I am surprised to see that you see this as strange.
What would happen to the Linux world if Microsoft were to write its own version of Linux that could live perfectly in a Windows world and run Windows Office applications?

William

 

[Pit]

Depending if Microsoft released a Server Edition; then Suse, Redhat, etc.
would feel it. That is assuming that Microsoft handled the code correctly for
the kernal and shell.... they have alittle trouble doing that now. Linux will
always survive, Linux users wouldn't flock to a Windows running Linux code.

And that's IMHO the point. Most Linux users don't run Linux because it's
that much better than Windows - in fact for desktop use it isn't. I
know, I tried that many times. They run it because they like the fact
that it's open source, and kind of a real unix, and _not_ made by Microsoft.

 

[Little Brother]

Linux would finally have a GUI worth using? Even better, Linux would get
real working drag 'n drop and decent cut 'n paste?

But what's the point now? The best choice out there in the upcoming months
is Server 2003 / Windows Vista.

Microsoft has gotten the NT kernel as solid as any other. XP rarely crashes
save for hardware problems, while Server - on the right hardware - gets near
miraclulous uptime, so what would be the point? With Monad [Windows Power
Shell] all the command line functionality of UNIX [and much more] is at the
fingertips of the Windows user. Every copy of Server and Vista will have the
..NET framework [adding massivular high performance programmatic
functionality with managed code].

UNIX /Linux is sort of tired in comparison, basically fit for the bit bucket
along with Windows 95 and Netscape Navigator 2.0 and worn out copies of old
Java code.

What would happen to the Linux world if Microsoft were to write its own
version of Linux that could live perfectly in a Windows world and run
Windows Office applications?

William

 

[Guest]

Linux is a great OS. Just no real mainstream client support. I don't trust
emulators (Wine), plus my thinking is 'It's always best to run native'.

 

[deebs]

I beg to differ.

Linux provides a sound basis for, say research universities and colleges
where no such commercial software exists for the research and projects
they have embarked upon.

Linux then becomes a universal tool of researchers with an additional
bonus that an open license permits them to tweak code as needed if needed.

 

[deebs]

Ummm .. what I forgot to say is that I don't think Linux hopes to be a
commercial desktop OS or a widely available desktop OS (yet?)

 

[Raven Mill]

I beg to differ.
Linux then becomes a universal tool of researchers with an additional
bonus that an open license permits them to tweak code as needed if needed.

Only if everyone on the research team are using the same flavor of linux...