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Microsoft Linux?!

Category : programming + software

Is it snowing in hell? Can pigs now fly? Are monkeys going to spontaneously fire from my ass like predicted? After reading news like this, these all become pretty valid questions. It’s like one of those terrible supermarket tabloids, except instead of news about some new celebrity couple with an idiotically conceived nickname it’s geek news about Microsoft joining forces with Novel Linux.

What becomes of this only the experts directly on the sidelines can surely tell. But I, for one look forward to learn what becomes of our Redmond based overlords. Mainly to find out what parts of Linux they do actually manage to adopt. After having read a few other good articles from various sources on the topic, all this hype appears to be targeted mostly in the server area.

If this co-op does actually extend beyond the server level (and I’m being extremely optimistic here), we could possibly see Redmond pull a Cupertino and actually reinvent Windows for the better. Who really knows though, it could even turn out for the worse. But, that is if they decide to adopt the Linux kernel into Windows and actually code for and support Linux in general. But for now that seems more like a pipe-dream then a reality.

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