Comments on: Microsoft’s Linux Lab?

By: Bertrand Giasson

Bertrand Giasson — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:24:42 +0000

Remember Open GL ? Microsoft used it to get the Feds off thier Back and I have no reason to believe that this is any different.I also think this new initiative is just another bone being thrown to increasingly disgruntled programers and will result in another exodus from Microsoft.Developers no longer see Microsoft as an innovator and is the real reason for the emplooyees are speaking out

By: MystaMax

MystaMax — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:46:15 +0000

Unfortunately, they are suppose to drive revenue. Why would they support a system that was 5-10 years old (assuming that interoperability between the two took that long)? They’ve already stopped updating Win2000 to a certain level.

Overall, I think its a great idea. but, microsoft seems to always have ‘other intentions’.

By: MickoZ

MickoZ — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 02:32:01 +0000

Don’t implement it backward, also mean you don’t have to support backward. That is sometime good. It is easy to complain, but sometime they could right now implement some feature backward, but they don’t want to support it, and that is ok, else they will put too much work time supporting stuff that not much use. Do you want them to support DOS for the next 100 years? Nada.

Microsoft has had Linux labs since sometime AFAIK.

It is a also a good opportunity to know about your competitor.

Also, I think Windows was made to be portable long time ago. But they chose to support only PC, etc. And that sometime is a good decision and good business decision.

That is like console vs. PC games. The console developper has the advantage to develop for a know hardware.

By: bwarrene

bwarrene — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:34:09 +0000

Andy - I absolutely agree that will be one of Microsoft’s tacks. However - if the trade-off is actually true improved usability between platforms - I will take it.

By: Andy Jones

Andy Jones — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:47:16 +0000

and that Microsoft may be able and willing to improve how its systems interact with competing operating systems.

Imagine they did do this. Imagine they did improve the interoperability between Microsoft Servers/Clients to Linux/Unix servers. This would be great wouldn’t it? No more struggling, just plug in your servers and off you go (presumably).

There is only one problem that I can see. At the moment my place of work use NT Server but we will be migrating over to either 2000 or 2003 Server later this year (probably 2000 Server). Do you honestly believe that Microsoft, if they improved the interoperability, would port this to previous versions? No, it will be in Longhorn Server with the excuse of ‘cannot be ported backwards because of security improvements’.

Basically, any improvements in interoperability will be used to persuade people to upgrade their servers. This is surely Microsoft’s ultimate plan. They see it as just another way to increase their revenue!!

By: Dr Livingston

Dr Livingston — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:26:38 +0000

i think that microsoft after all the slagging off it has made of open source over the years, has a hard neck to venture into it now, after all this time.

some folks… have no shame at all :( :lol: