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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by optforfon on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:04PM (#12314290)
By giving everything away for free?

The only related revenue stream M$ seems to have left is Azure with some vague notion that giving away their ecosystem will drive people to use their cloud more

Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by ocdtrekkie on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:22PM (#12315592)
Windows isn't free. Office isn't free. All of their enterprise server software isn't free.
Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by Arcsech on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:55PM (#12317105)
Support and training contracts aren't free, either. I don't know if Microsoft does much of that, but it's another option for revenue with .NET.
Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by acscott on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:40PM (#12317643)
Microsoft does not grow food, build houses, create clothes, cars, or protect you from foreign invaders. The basic human needs are not met by MS. The business that claimed that open-source was a cancer is just a marketing company with memetic feedback loops. Plenty of over Operating Systems are out there. Their office product is no longer relevant (vis. a vis. Libre Office, Google Docs, and others). Are you telling me a multi-billion dollar company cannot compete with a startup such as Google? There's a reason why. They do not create. Just marketing.
Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by Senji on Thursday August 18, 2016 @11:03PM (#12317725)
>Their office product is no longer relevant (vis. a vis. Libre Office, Google Docs, and others).

You have no idea just how wrong you are. Excel has no competitor worthy of even talking about. Libre Office is a mess. Google docs doesn't do everything word can and is in the realm of a toy web app.

Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by witty_username on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:26AM (#12317966)
Why is Google Docs a toy web app?