https://gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/microsoft/ Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable this guy called it loooong back
I made this prediction years ago
Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
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Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
They developed something called M-DOS or MIDAS in 1979, but by that time CP/M was already established, so they decided against releasing it.
I was always curious on why their original product, BASIC, did not evolve into a full operating system. Looking at it with the sensibility of a unix affectionado. basic is sort of analogous to the unix shell, a unified interactive user interface and scripting language. This would appear to be a far superior interface than the relatively crippled CP/M inspired DOS command interpreter. My best guess, memory, on those e…
There was a rumor of MS and DRI having a non-aggression pact before 1981: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/gary-kildall-bill-g...
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
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#44Oh great, more azure garbage. Azure is a pile of crap. My god I don’t understand how it can function
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#46I'm surprised that people consider this a victory. It just shows how much open source became irrelevant to users' freedom.
Who considers this a victory? There isn't a single post in this whole thread so far saying anything like that. Nothing in the article is saying it's a victory either.
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It arose as a joke site from /., when and where people still had a sense of humor.
Good times. Reminds me of the following[1] classic: "What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit By A Bus?" - An Empirical Study [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150621191048/http://segfault.o...
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#48It finally happened, 23 years later! /s https://web.archive.org/web/20251108032058/https://mslinux.o...
Heh. > MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means you can freely use this Software on a single machine without warranty after having paid the purchase price and annual renewal fees.
It's funny how back in the days we used to think the worse a big corporation could do is charge you money. Those were simpler times.
Re: Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
#49WSL was the first public sign Microsoft had given up on windows.
On the contrary, Microsoft acknowledged those that buy NeXTSTEP evolution laptops to do Linux work, showing that actually any POSIX support will do, and since nowadays Linux distros have won the UNIX server room wars, they packaged Linux in a VM.
Just like Apple eventually did witn Virtualization Framework, because they cannot be bothered to keep pushing OS X Server.
Thus WSL alongside Virtualization Framework are the actual Year of Linux Desktop.