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Microsoft just announced that three different versions of the free Linux operating system — Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora — are coming to the Windows Store, the app market in Windows 10.
It sounds weird, but it makes perfect sense. In early 2016, Microsoft announced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a way for developers to use full versions of Linux within Windows 10 itself.
Putting aside the historical ramifications here — Microsoft spent the 90s unsuccessfully trying to stamp out Linux, a free alternative to Windows — it was a move intended to bait programmers into using Windows 10.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-store-gets-ubuntu-suse-fedora-linux-2017-5
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Sunday May 14 2017, @07:11PM (1 child)
Interesting that the three Linuxes Microsoft acquired are all commercial (though possibly the free versions of those?). No Debian. No Devuan. No Arch. No ... need I go on?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 14 2017, @07:45PM
They probably started with companies that were willing to put people on the project. You know... money. How most dev work is done and has been done for years. Someone pays you to do it. They probably will rope in the others when they have the budget/time for it. Or they could do it your way and add them all in and create a nightmare that will never get done and drag on for years.
MS within 10 years will be 'all in' on the open source movement. NT/win32 will be a subsystem loader in linux/BSD. The OS for a consumer is bottomed out on a ROI of near 0. Linux saw to that. In the enterprise Linux is eating up pretty much all of the big iron stuff and mid range web serving. MS will move in on it. They will embrace. It is part of their culture. This is just the first moves into it. To see if they can bridge the two together. The only big enterprise that is still putting windows into the server env is those that were already doing it.
MS has huge security problems but they actually have decent clue how to work the issues, triage, and fix them. They learned the hard way. Just as Apple is now starting to learn with their phone and OS. MS will eventually just wall the whole thing off in a cname jail per 'win32' process. My bet is they just buy out one of the big distros, prob red hat. Then get busy smashing the two together. MS will get out of the OS business and back into the consulting and software business they had in the 80s. Linux will eventually win the desktop mindshare. But only because MS makes it happen.