Re: Microsoft has developed its own Linux. Repeat. Microsoft has developed its own Linux • The Register

[Stephen Partington]

lucidchart was surprisingly good as a replacement for visio.

but i have to agree with alot of this. and i think office 365 is getting
stable under wine again so it should be viable in that environment soon if
not already.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I think they just have enough demand for interoperation between linux and
> azure (hyperv) that they are forced to support linux just to keep their
> users happy.  They can't avoid it, proven they can't defeat it, so they're
> only left to play nicely or eventually be replaced by it, even if that is
> just patching kernel bugs to keep it working on their platforms.
>
> Oracle finally had to as well, as their solaris user market was dying
> quickly, and really they just needed a stable os to put underneath their
> other suits of overpriced middleware. This way, they could control and
> default tweak sysctl's so clueless outsourced labor can dummy install
> oracle db's like they had a clue how to optimize linux.
>
> Besides, it would be a boon to make linux work with active directory vs.
> having to integrate 3rd party products around it (centrify, powerbroker,
> ipa), which would only adds yet more value to active directory to rule them
> all if not having to.  The holy grail for linux environments is always to
> be rid of the last components that stand in your way to domination, usually
> AD and desktops for (l)users, but what if you didn't have to?
>
> If they had a decent visio port under linux, I might actually pay for it
> vs. just trying to replace it for the past 10 years.  Sadly they'd just
> release a half-assed, bastard port like they did office for mac, that you
> might as well just use libreoffice, for free.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 09/17/2015 11:59 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>
> it was bound to happen sooner or later. perhaps they finally got a brain.
>
> -eric
>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux/?mt=1442559356305
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