Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux

Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by treis on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:31PM (#24756175)

They're not going to get there tomorrow, but 20 years from now? I can see it happening. Computers are trending towards being things that just run web browsers. Applications are headed to the cloud. And Windows lost the mobile war and is increasingly losing the laptop war.

On the flip side as Azure becomes more significant for MS the role of Linux becomes more significant. At some point the cost of working on two kernels is going to outweigh the benefit of transitioning Windows over to Linux.

Or maybe not. It's hard to predict things. Especially about the future.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by freeone3000 on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:21PM (#24758340)

The main thing that will happen to software that's twenty years old in twenty years is for the software to be forty years old. Large legacy systems do not get replaced.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by treis on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:13PM (#24758943)

Don't tell that to the people that pay me to replace large legacy systems.

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