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posted by martyb on Friday August 19 2016, @06:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-BASH-this-idea dept.

Some exceedingly odd news today from the world of Microsoft:

Today's customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that's just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together. Microsoft is working company-wide to deliver management tools that empower customers to manage any platform, from anywhere, on any device, using Linux or Windows. This shift to a more open, customer-obsessed approach to deliver innovation is one of the things that makes me most excited to come to work every day.

You've heard Satya Nadella say "Microsoft loves Linux" and that's never been more true than now. Nearly one in three VMs on Azure are Linux. Nearly 60 percent of third-party IaaS offers in the Azure Marketplace are open source software (OSS). We have forged strong industry partners to extend choice to our customers. We've announced SQL Server on Linux, as well as open sourced .NET. We added Bash to Windows 10 to make it a great platform for developing OSS. And, we're active contributors and participants to numerous open source projects (e.g. OpenSSH, FreeBSD, Mesos, Docker, Linux and many more) across the industry.

Today, we are taking the next step in our journey. I am extremely excited to share that PowerShell is open sourced and available on Linux. (For those of you who need a refresher, PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on the .NET Framework to help IT professionals control and automate the administration of the Windows, and now Linux, operating systems and the applications that run on them.) I'm going to share a bit more about our journey getting here, and will tell you how Microsoft Operations Management Suite can enhance the PowerShell experience.

I have no words. Well, I do but they're mostly of the four-letter variety and in random order.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @09:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @09:47AM (#390014)

    Windows 11, sounds like it's gonna be awesome.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Friday August 19 2016, @11:21AM

    by anubi (2828) on Friday August 19 2016, @11:21AM (#390026) Journal

    There may never be a Windows11. I get the idea that Windows10 will always be upgrading itself to the latest incarnation - and you will have no choice in it. Not much different than the DRM'd DVD format where they take over control of the player when they want to.

    I may be wrong, but I forsee lots of ads in the future. Unskippable ads. Just like you were watching OTA TV. Unless you run the corporate edition.

    And this brought to you by the OS, not the browser. Anytime you have the system online, the OS itself will be listening for ads to show to you. Just like TV.

    I believe this relentless relieving the user of control of the system, along with this DMCA type legislation to make bypassing illegal, is leading up to this.

    Note already any user that powers down his machine without permission is going to be greeted by delays on next startup. This goes against everything I was taught in CS - where I was supposed to have disk files open just long enough to write an updated file. If things were changing all the time, that was what RAM was for. If the system power failed or system lockup occurred, well, you lost the last interval of data that was being processed. Which I thought in the grand scheme of things wasn't much worse than the occasional loss of a meal if something that did not agree with you got in.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday August 19 2016, @01:53PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday August 19 2016, @01:53PM (#390059) Journal

      There we have it. Windows doesn't go up to 11.

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 19 2016, @02:07PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 19 2016, @02:07PM (#390066) Journal

        So you're saying Windows can henceforth be known as: Windows OS X ?

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        People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
        • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 19 2016, @02:30PM

          by tangomargarine (667) on Friday August 19 2016, @02:30PM (#390081)

          #hahaonlyserious

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          "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 19 2016, @09:06PM

        by Gaaark (41) on Friday August 19 2016, @09:06PM (#390290) Journal

        They'll just make windows 10 +1 louder.

        Is this the end of windows?

        Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you.
        --Satya Nadella

        Why doesn't Gaaark use windows?
        You can't really dust for vomit.

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    • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday August 20 2016, @12:34AM

      by butthurt (6141) on Saturday August 20 2016, @12:34AM (#390360) Journal

      > I get the idea that Windows10 will always be upgrading itself to the latest incarnation [...]

      Can't be arsed to look it up, but I seem to recall that an announcement was made to that effect. If the Windows 10 brand is ruined enough, they can change their minds about sticking with it.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @12:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @12:19PM (#390036)

    even if it's not awesome, 11 will be louder...