Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
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Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#2Wow, this simply would never have happened under Ballmer. It is really great to see what Microsoft is able to do under Satya Nadella. I like what I'm seeing and it will keep Linux honest.
Hell hath frozen over.
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#3I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something.
In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows.
Rock on Microsoft, rock on.
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#4Am I crazy to have thought this had already happened? What is it I'm think of instead?
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#5I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.
> And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows.
Ubuntu userland, with no Linux kernel. It could be more appropriately named GNU/Windows, amusingly enough.
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#6Wow, this simply would never have happened under Ballmer. It is really great to see what Microsoft is able to do under Satya Nadella. I like what I'm seeing and it will keep Linux honest. Hell hath frozen over.
Hell can't freeze. It's already frozen.
Apple now is going to have to make improvements to the XCode platform.
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#7I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.
Definitely agree. It's not very surprising at this day and age, but if you told me this would happen 10 years ago I would have laughed and discounted the idea completely.
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#8I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.
We're really committed to doing our best on being good members of the global developer community, just watch Connect(); // 2016 where this was announced and is streaming live right now. We've got a few more announcements coming :).
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#9Wow, this simply would never have happened under Ballmer. It is really great to see what Microsoft is able to do under Satya Nadella. I like what I'm seeing and it will keep Linux honest. Hell hath frozen over.
I'd really like to see some windows compatibility layer for Linux to run Windows applications.
Re: Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
#10I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.
We're really committed to doing our best on being good members of the global developer community, just watch Connect(); // 2016 where this was announced and is streaming live right now. We've got a few more announcements coming :). https://connectevent.microsoft.com
Awesome!
Way back when, I was a huge Microsoft fanboy, until Mac OS X came out, then I hated Microsoft...then I used a Windows Phone from day one until just before Microsoft bought Nokia. And I own a Surface. Definitely come full circle.