Microsoft Joins Open Invention Network With Its 60,000+ Patents

[starshipeleven]

Does this mean the exFat driver can be merged now?

And that we can finally have an in-kernel NTFS driver (that does not suck)?

[Guest]

You think those companies don't deserve the skepticism and people should just forget the past? They have been toxic to this community for years and now they have to really really provide some good reasons over the same amount of years that they changed if they want to get the trust back.

It's different. Doesn't Microsoft sell cloud Linux servers now?

[boxie]

Ignoring the SJW crap they push on all their "open source" projects. sure. they've improved, not.

most SJW stuff is just "be nice to others and have some empathy" - by appending "crap" or "bullshit" you appear to be going down the same extremist path as the ones you seem to be railing against - making you the same as them.

cut it out - be nice - and you will find that people being nice to each other gets things done faster and everyone has a good day.

[polarathene]

And that we can finally have an in-kernel NTFS driver (that does not suck)?

That'd be awesome, they've been doing all that linux interopability for Windows 10, would be great if they do some of that the other way around.

One thing that's bugged me with USB storage(at least FAT32, not sure if it affects others) on linux is that common issue people experience where you write data and a DE reports it as a completed write/transfer, but in reality, the kernel has just written the data to write to memory and still flushing it to the actual storage media. Or you get what appears to be a normal write(or the write speed is much higher than it should be because it's actually writing to memory), and then it slows down to snail pace and can take several hours for a GB or so to actually finish writing to the storage media, and only then can you unmount it. If you unmount prior, the write wasn't completed and your data is corrupt...

IIRC, I found out this was due to the kernels vm (virtual memory?) parameters, which while suitable for internal media, had buffers and other things too large for external media(might actually be from USB 2.0 devices, but I know the perf is a snail compared to Windows). You could adjust these but not per device, it was unfortunately global, so your internal media would take a dive in I/O perf, unless you specifically adjusted it momentarily for your external media write.

[polarathene]

It's different. Doesn't Microsoft sell cloud Linux servers now?

Yeah, Azure offers linux instances now. Even put together their own distro based on customer needs/feedback iirc.

[Redfoxmoon]

please delete your account and rethink what you are actually doing here. for your own sake.

Why don't you just go full blown authoritarian instead, "I don't like you being there, so get banhammered!" lmfao.

[Redfoxmoon]

most SJW stuff is just "be nice to others and have some empathy" - by appending "crap" or "bullshit" you appear to be going down the same extremist path as the ones you seem to be railing against - making you the same as them.

cut it out - be nice - and you will find that people being nice to each other gets things done faster and everyone has a good day.

Clearly you haven't the slightest idea what SJWs want; they do not care about "being nice to each other", they want power, absolute power, as we've witnessed countless times, and MS is *certainly* guilty of pulling SJW tactics just like google, apple, etc.

[pal666]

It's not about IR, it's about kernel features that differ between Windows and Linux. DX relies on some of those for performance.

linux kernel is opensource, you know

[shmerl]

linux kernel is opensource, you know

And has quite different kernel design from Windows too. Not everything can be matched 1:1.

[boxie]

Clearly you haven't the slightest idea what SJWs want; they do not care about "being nice to each other", they want power, absolute power, as we've witnessed countless times, and MS is *certainly* guilty of pulling SJW tactics just like google, apple, etc.

That certainly is an interesting take on it, but like I said - you might be going down a narrow rabbit hole from a minority of hateful people.

Pointing out that there is inequality and attempting to get things on an even playing field is certainly a rather grown up thing to do and a good thing to want. Raging against that makes you appear to be a petulant child who has had their toys taken away.