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I’m not sure how anyone could arrive at this conclusion. The OS itself is certainly not “Linux underneath a carefully preserved old-Windows UI.”
“The OS itself , and its userland tools, has for some time already been Linux underneath a carefully preserved old-Windows UI.” I’m not sure how anyone could arrive at this conclusion. The OS itself is certainly not “Linux underneath a carefully preserved old-Windows UI.”
I'm buying a new computer. Currently I have only ubuntu linux machines and was just saying to someone that I would actually consider trying windows and WSL because it would let me use the linux tools I want alongside MS office, and it might be interesting to play with windows versions of things. The reason I wont actually do it though is because I'm sure that windows will be filled with commercially oriented intrusio…
> "Ten years later, Azure makes Microsoft most of its money." Well, no, not yet. Microsoft doesn't break out Azure separately. It's usually included in their "Intelligent Cloud", which is the largest segment, but that also includes SQL Server (a big money maker), Windows Server, GitHub, and other stuff. "Commercial Cloud" revenue (which is all the cloud portions of their products, from Azure to Office 365 Commercial)…
Office is part of “ Productivity and Business Processes” not “Intelligent Cloud”.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/microsoft-msft-earnings-q1-2...
I'm buying a new computer. Currently I have only ubuntu linux machines and was just saying to someone that I would actually consider trying windows and WSL because it would let me use the linux tools I want alongside MS office, and it might be interesting to play with windows versions of things. The reason I wont actually do it though is because I'm sure that windows will be filled with commercially oriented intrusio…
> "Ten years later, Azure makes Microsoft most of its money." Well, no, not yet. Microsoft doesn't break out Azure separately. It's usually included in their "Intelligent Cloud", which is the largest segment, but that also includes SQL Server (a big money maker), Windows Server, GitHub, and other stuff. "Commercial Cloud" revenue (which is all the cloud portions of their products, from Azure to Office 365 Commercial)…
Also, Azure is running on Windows. While majority of VMs may be running on Linux, the hosts are running Windows. I would assume Microsoft sees competitive advantage in using their own OS and hypervisor.
This is a very strange conclusion to draw. Chromium was already ported to Linux. Microsoft just "ported" the Edge skin which likely uses very little Windows-specific code.
Just a sidenote, after 25 years of using Windows, I switched to OSX. But following the article logic, that can also be considered a Unix. :-)
> Microsoft has already ported Edge to run under Linux. There is only one way that makes any sense, and that is as a trial run for freeing the rest of the Windows utility suite from depending on any emulation layer. This is a very strange conclusion to draw. Chromium was already ported to Linux. Microsoft just "ported" the Edge skin which likely uses very little Windows-specific code.
I'm buying a new computer. Currently I have only ubuntu linux machines and was just saying to someone that I would actually consider trying windows and WSL because it would let me use the linux tools I want alongside MS office, and it might be interesting to play with windows versions of things. The reason I wont actually do it though is because I'm sure that windows will be filled with commercially oriented intrusio…
Definitely agree, a Mac you get Mac OS, Ubuntu you get Ubuntu, Windows you get some Frankenstein of the OS, Mcafee, Dell, and various other companies applications all stitched together.