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Originally posted by PublicNuisance View Post
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postand since their azure architect joins lf board, they are here for azure, not for desktop
That's a war Microsoft already lost, or is losing, in the server space. The most likely thing is that they will improve Azure support for Linux, Linux support for Azure and hyper-v; hopefully not building lock-in functionalities like the ones I heard AWS are putting. For that last point, we just need users to be intelligent, and see the value in having multiple eventual cloud providers, and still be able to deploy/test locally.
That, plus I am starting to really believe Satya Nadella, when it comes to Microsoft's policy changes. Looks like even Microsoft is changing nowadays (at least this is no longer Gates' or Balmer's). Only time will tell. Worst case I can think of: if we "trust" (not too much) them, we can benefit from it, even if they still have their evil masterplanâ„¢ in mind.
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Originally posted by gufide View Post
That's a fork of atom with a different name. Not visual studio
Why Linux: Microsoft last years makes more money from Cloud than any other product (MS Office, OS, SQL Sever or hardware). But they are far away behind the Amazon cloud services. On the other side 50% of the business is using Linux as server OS. So adopting Linux and making it first class citizen in Azure is Microsoft priority. Porting SQL Server and ASP.NET to Linux is just a way to attract more and more customers to Linux.
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For the people that think that Microsoft wants to do EEE to Linux are in a big mistake. Why: They don't care for Desktop OS. The sells of PCs are going down every year, the world changes to more mobile solutions: Android or iOS. The PC business is not profitable anymore. Who uses the PC in our days: The business, government and gamers, you think this is a lot of users think again maybe 30% of the market. The biggest amount of users are the regular home users, but wait why the home user need a PC ? He has a smart TV, smart Phone, Tablet, Game Console to do everything he needs.
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Perhaps MS wants to use Linux as a future backend to Windows someday? It will still be locked down to high heaven with proprietary API and all but perhaps some good can come from it eventually? We just need a MAJOR shift to Vulkan API to really give the message to MS that platform locked API's are NOT the way of the future.
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