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Microsoft's New Core OS Team Learning from Linux
sokk writes "Seems like Microsoft is paying attention to the Linux way of doing things. According to itworld.com, a new central engineering division will work on the core of Windows: "The Windows Core Operating System Division (COSD), within the company's Platforms Group, will be responsible for the core OS platform, including development, program management and testing, Microsoft said in a statement sent via e-mail.". A little further down the page analyst Rob Enderle: "They have been studying Linux extensively. Part of their study has been on how Linux has been able to maintain a high level of consistency in the kernel while groups around it maintain maximum flexibility,".
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Microsoft better watch out! That GPL software might corrupt their innovation!
Nah, Linux developers have cut out the middleman and are copying Apple directly now :)
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Linux is anti-American, unconstitutional, hippie-dippie, probably communistic, causes cancer in laboratory animals . . .
and now Microsoft wants to be more like Linux. Got it.
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I'd say. Wait till Bill Gates dumps his haircut and grows a full-out Santa Claus beard in the style of Jon 'maddog' Hall.
"It seems that GPL must be in place to bring stability to the thing", said one of the core group leaders.
It is puzzling since the exact same version of Windows was setup and only the GPL-labeled boxes were able to keep an extended uptime. The same core group leader said "It is extremely odd. We suspect that the GPL has some magical attributes to it, making everything under those three letters run better. See, we've made a test and enabled users to select the licensing scheme, whether to follow our usual EULAs or GPL. After the selection, the software was installed as usual, with no differences whatsoever, since we did not let users customize the install after the license selection. We found out that installations made when the user clicked on the EULA option tended to be more susceptible to hangups than installs made under the GPL".
Does anyone find it funny that COSD is really close to BSOD? There has to be some relationship there...
So, how did the Linux developers get the Windows SMP code? Or are you saying that any functional SMP implementation comes from Windows?
Wait... isn't SMP what SCO is freaking about?! Now I get it! You're in the wrong thread! This is a Microsoft astroturfing thread, not an SCO astroturfing thread. Wait a few minutes, and you'll have an SCO thread to work with, okay?
Can't we all just... get along?
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But isn't FreeBSD dead? By inference then, FreeBSD->Apple so Apple must be dead also, nothing new here. Further inference shows Apple->Windows and Apple->Linux. This concludes that Windows and Linux are also dead. Blame FreeBSD.
"Studying" Linux, hehe.
Developer 1: "Ah.. so this is how they do it in this section..." *copies and pastes code and gives it a quick test* "That should do it. Next section!"
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So, are you saying that MS is not doing that currently? Aha! Finally, they admit it.
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Reeeeeeeally? So when is Longhorn due?
2003 you say.
Now you say 2004.
2005?
2006?!
So how's that Trustworthy Computing thing working?
Never mind.
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