Microsoft opens a linux lab????? WHA!!!!

NutJob

Anyone remember Balmers quote
Linux "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/06/01/1658258.shtml

Now they open a Linux lab Wha??????

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+open+the+doors+of+Linux+labs/2100-7252_3-6058196.html?tag=nefd.top

aidan_walsh

Balmer is an idiot who should be muzzled. Pretty much every thing he says just ends up making the company look bad at some stage.

I think the "Developers" mantra is pretty much all he has said that hasn't back fired.

Goodshape

christ... WinXP on Macs... Microsoft's Linux Lab...

it must be a cold day in hell.

Blowfish

of course they have a linux lab, where else would they get their "innovative ideas" from;)

NutJob

Blowfish wrote:

of course they have a linux lab, where else would they get their "innovative ideas" from;)

Mostly apples ideas

cousin_borat

I remember reading an article about MS having a Linux 2/33 years ago at this stage.

MrVestek

They dont have a Linux man, we're not talking about Microsoft developing a version of Linux (dear god no) but I do remember the thing you're talking about, it was an old website set up to mimic www.microsoft.com telling all about Microsoft Linux but it was an april fool's joke of about 2 or 3 weeks ago.

cousin_borat

Achilles wrote:

They dont have a Linux man, we're not talking about Microsoft developing a version of Linux (dear god no) but I do remember the thing you're talking about, it was an old website set up to mimic www.microsoft.com telling all about Microsoft Linux but it was an april fool's joke of about 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Sorry misunderstanding was my fault, my last message made no sense. I should have said, I read an interview with the guy who headed was the head administrator in Microsofts Linux Server Farm labaratory.

Dev 17

I heard recently that a couple of years ago Hotmail servers were running on Free/Open BSD. But since has gone back to windows machines. I don't think its bs either . Can someone clarify this?

flogen

Why wouldn't they? It helps them get to know their challenger better, and gives them a foothold should Linux turn out to be the threat to business some believe it will (as in they'll offer a free Windows Linux alternative that will offer all the things people like about Linux and a brand they can "trust"... of course they'll figure out a way to make money out of it... premium content and all that)

MrVestek

flogen wrote:

Why wouldn't they? It helps them get to know their challenger better, and gives them a foothold should Linux turn out to be the threat to business some believe it will (as in they'll offer a free Windows Linux alternative that will offer all the things people like about Linux and a brand they can "trust"... of course they'll figure out a way to make money out of it... premium content and all that)

Microsoft offering a Linux product? Dear god no.. please if that happens I'll be forced to gouge out my eyes. Incidentially:

http://www.mslinux.org

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx

Goodshape

Dev 17 wrote:

I heard recently that a couple of years ago Hotmail servers were running on Free/Open BSD. But since has gone back to windows machines. I don't think its bs either . Can someone clarify this?

Actually, I know of a company from a (good) few years back that where doing business with Microsoft and supposed to be using their server software as part of the deal. They just changed some value in the Linux code so that any outside checks returned a 'using Microsoft Windows' value

Gotta love open source