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Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by warumdarum »

philistine wrote: post #134
warumdarum wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many percent of their revenue funel are dependent directly or indirectly on windows beeing the peoples workstation funneling them towards their subpar products?

In the Enterprise, they'll fight tooth and nail to maintain that synergy. In the small business and consumer markets, people are having a very slow divorce from Windows, and Microsoft is well aware. MS365 is an ok product and can absolutely thrive on its own without Windows.

Without the "i grew up with that pipeline "that is windows? I have doubts.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by simoncion »

brokencode wrote: post #141
simoncion wrote: post #123

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Hello! I'm a USian, so my telecom situation might be really weird when compared to the rest of the world, IDK. > It’s better than SMS... If it guarantees timely and in-order delivery, then yes, it's better than SMS. If it doesn't, no matter what else it does it's just as bad. > ...and is the new industry standard. Odd. The only RCS messages I receive are spam. Literally zero legitimate entities send me RCS messages.…

Don’t use it if you don’t want. I’m not some kind of RCS salesman. I usually use third party apps myself. That doesn’t mean it’s not an upgrade versus SMS.

You:

  I’m not some kind of RCS salesman.
also you:

  It’s better than SMS and is the new industry standard.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by giancarlostoro »

dralley wrote: post #146
brokencode wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The “extinguish” part refers to your competition, not to your own product. You embrace a popular open standard, add new features to your software that build upon the standard (but are proprietary), then watch as your competitors die off because customers become locked into your proprietary features. Similar to how Apple hijacked SMS to add iMessage and introduced all kinds of features and the blue/green bubble stylin…

The thing is that if step 2 isn't proprietary, but rather more open source code, then it's not "extinguish" it's just garden variety open source competition.

I have gone on websites that stop me from usint Firefox or Safari and tell me to install Chrome instead. Its definitely “proprietary” with make up on it. A lot of official Google webapps have done this over the years too. Its ridiculous.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by brokencode »

simoncion wrote: post #152
brokencode wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t use it if you don’t want. I’m not some kind of RCS salesman. I usually use third party apps myself. That doesn’t mean it’s not an upgrade versus SMS.

You: I’m not some kind of RCS salesman. also you: It’s better than SMS and is the new industry standard.

Yeah, there’s really nothing controversial about that. RCS is the improved replacement for SMS. That doesn’t mean I care if you use it.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by trumpdong »

brokencode wrote: post #154
simoncion wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You: I’m not some kind of RCS salesman. also you: It’s better than SMS and is the new industry standard.

Yeah, there’s really nothing controversial about that. RCS is the improved replacement for SMS. That doesn’t mean I care if you use it.

The Google/Apple lock-in is pretty controversial.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by mattoxic »

ciupicri wrote: post #145
mattoxic wrote: post #23

"Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM. Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump." Christ, they even lead with AI slop.

Why are you saying it's an AI slop?

"Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump"

"It's not just this, it's a totally also that" Clause and CrapGPT love this phraseology.

Re: Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Post by NuclearPM »

tossandthrow wrote: post #136
embedding-shape wrote: post #131

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But that wasn't the question, what they ask is specifically "Hey, could you recommend me a general purpose Linux distribution?", would you still first recommend Ubuntu Server?

Sure, why not?

Because it isn’t general purpose, it is for servers.

You are being _/

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