Understanding Microsoft's Linux code shocker

SamW said:

This certainly is an interesting move from Microsoft, especially considering the release of Win Server 2008 R2 being upon us.

As a sys. admin of many Linux servers, I welcome this from Microsoft - but I am weary of their true intentions behind this...

True intention seems pretty obvious

They want people to be able to run Windows Server to host virtual machines for flavors of Windows AND Linux. Currently Linux does not run as well and so people may use other software to run Linux VMs seperately from their Windows VMs.

Being able to run Linux (well) as a VM under Windows Server makes Windows Server more attractive as a product.

fseal said:

True intention seems pretty obvious

They want people to be able to run Windows Server to host virtual machines for flavors of Windows AND Linux. Currently Linux does not run as well and so people may use other software to run Linux VMs seperately from their Windows VMs.

Being able to run Linux (well) as a VM under Windows Server makes Windows Server more attractive as a product.

True, but it seems like a bit of a double-ended sword... Surely microsoft will want people to virtualise THEIR OS, over Linux.

Perhaps this is a long-term plan from Microsoft, making this code available now to boost sales of the Hyper-V server, then as time goes on try to make Windows servers in virtualisation look more attractive than Linux servers.

Or they could genuinely be being nice and giving users a bit more linux-like freedom

BTW, the word "bewaring" comes Bernard in the episode of "Yes Minister" in which they were discussing this very phrase.

That series was the best political satire ever produced.

Sorry, back on topic...whatever the reason, you can bet there are $$$ behind it. At first blush it appears to be a sound business decision. Broaden the appeal of Server 2008.

mickey megabyte said:

i think this is a world-wide phenomenon - very few people (period) learn latin anymore...

one of the perils of being a dead language i suppose!

at school (30 or so years ago) i had the choice between german and latin - i decided german would be a little more useful...

Sorry OT
i had to take both and stank at both. All these subjugations drove me bonkers. Later i tried my hand at Tsjech but found out is has 7 forms of subjugation and each word in a phrase is subjugated separately according to gender and context.

Classical languages AND you know about Yes Minister.

Quite a few Europeans wouldn't associate that with Texas....

I opted for German over Ancient Greek but have had the benefit of Latin (not a benefit at the time but appreciated now).

As for MS's "gift"...I've always been led to believe that Linux offers good protection against Trojans

greeks, trojans - see what he's done here?

Shouldn't the original be translated "Beware of geeks bearing .gifs?"


...Sorry. I'm going to go PUNish myself now.

newmo said:

Classical languages AND you know about Yes Minister.

Quite a few Europeans wouldn't associate that with Texas....

I opted for German over Ancient Greek but have had the benefit of Latin (not a benefit at the time but appreciated now).

As for MS's "gift"...I've always been led to believe that Linux offers good protection against Trojans

Why shucks y'all, we even got indoor plumbin' down here. Yeesh haven't we grown beyond that sort of parochial view of the South yet.

BTW I understand the Trojans offer great protection as well

Catswold said:

Why shucks y'all, we even got indoor plumbin' down here. Yeesh haven't we grown beyond that sort of parochial view of the South yet.

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