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Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the yoga-position-questions dept.

scrm writes "The next version of Windows should be built on top of Linux, according to this article by Robert Cringely of PBS." If Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free software .. couldn't they?

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  1. Yeah right by KilljoyAZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's about as likely as Jack Valenti saying, "We actually don't need copyrights to last this long," or Duke Nukem Forever being released.

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  2. wait..... by skinnedmink · · Score: 5, Funny

    If anyone could ruin the stability of Linux.....it would be Microsoft.

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  3. The question is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will Linus accept the BSOD patch for the kernel?

  4. I like this guy, but... by fireboy1919 · · Score: 4, Funny

    specifically, what a premise.

    Let me start thinking that way.

    You can get to a root prompt in Linux. You can do so in BSD as well. Solaris, also.

    Apparently, these are all actually the same thing - they're all running Linux, underneath it all. And because it's that simple, it's just marketing - since the product is free - Solaris is just hyping it up so that people will use CDE.

    Lets go further. Also, you can find a brain inside every animal. Cats have brains.

    So, deep down, we're all cats, right*?

    *Really old, bad movie quote

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  5. Re:No. by CptNoSkill · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea Microsoft would never base their products on something that apple made.. oh.. wait a minute....

  6. The Truth... by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux?"

    No because I hate Microsoft and I refuse to see any good that could come from it.

  7. Re:Windows Kernels, and Environments by SirSlud · · Score: 4, Funny

    you're bang on, man

    again, we think, who combines the awesomeness of *nix with the gui wikedness of XP? Oh yeah, apple! ;)

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