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Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server
zaxios writes "Techworld is reporting that Microsoft has announced support for running Linux on their virtualization software, Virtual Server 2005. From the article: '[Microsoft] can't compete against VMware without support for other operating systems.' Perhaps the significance of this is that Microsoft has acknowledged Linux as an OS people might want to use, which seems an upgrade from its previous status as a communist cancer."
In the post-Microsoft world I welcome our communist Linux overlords.
Microsoft is supporting communism AND cancer!? Well I knew they were evil but this is definitely a new low. For shame, Microsoft, for shame.
Does this mean I can finally run Linux under Wine?
Or Microsoft wants to be able to go "hey why switch to Linux, you can do the same thing on Windows, whats up with you silly commie?"
I like muppets.
make them run in a virtual server...
Freedom is strength, Ignorance is peace, War is slavery.
Even a stone can change with time.
Sir, you give me hope with that comment about my parent-in-law. Thank You.
...does it run Linux?
it means you can run Wine on Windows.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
Seems we are starting to get to the fourth stage.
...if Linux'll run.
Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
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When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
I wonder who will be the first one to run:
- Linux Running VMware running...
- Windows Running VirtualServer2005 running...
- Linux Running WMware running...
You get the idea..What he means is that virtualization will become a mission-critical function within the enterprise allowing customers to leverage their investments in legacy systems while enabling information technology staff to expand development using innovative technologies. MS is striving to develop best of breed technologies to provide its cusomers better TCO and ROI when compared with competing products.
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
you inspire me.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
What happens to your Linux servers when you have to reboot your Microsoft servers?
That's going to skew the uptime reliability for Linux servers.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
Linux is... a cancer. And we... are the cure.
Wouldn't running Linux on top of Windows be kind of like stacking bricks on jello?
hack a day
- First they ignore you
- then they laugh at you
- then they fight you
- then you win
- My corollary: then they say they were with you all along
I thought we were at GhandiCon 3 with Microsoft but this has shades of GhandiCon 5 (my corollary).Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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Windows inside Linux inside Windows inside MacOSX.
So instead of one cross-platform standards-based language embodying write-one-run-anywhere, we do it the long way around.
Yeah, this is a really great idea. "Our new PCs from Dell can run six different operating systems inside each other right out of the box. We call it the Mental Whiplash System."
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
1)M$ gives up on Longhorn, has a BarBQue, adopts Linux and moves all its goodies over onto it.
2) M$ gets a solid OS base.
3) Linux gets a decent desktop. (Okay its no Mac but still.)
4) $$$
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...and applies a little KY jelly to their butthole for Linux to slide in easier.
Longhorn's late. Yukon's late. Ballmer, the deadline for April Fool's jokes are April 1st.
[ducks]
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
>>This is virtually non-sensical to me.
As it should be. Only Marketing Weasels(tm) understand one another's mumblings. It lets them say things without really saying anything. The fact that this unintelligable banter is confusing to you means you're still a geek.
(Oh, and just for the record, that phrase translates into "Damn Linux! Won't it just go away?")
But does it run OS/2?
"And since we are not mind-readers, our only source of insight into Bill Gates' head is, well, Bill Gates."
Hey now, don't count out Dvorak!
"Derp de derp."
Why, SCO Unix, of course.
Linux Running VMware running Windows Running VirtualServer2005 running FreeBSD running PearPC running OS X running MoM running BeOS running Sheepshaver running Mac OS running Bochs running Linux Running WMware running...
We of the Linux Inquisition have one weapon. Our chief weapon is Fear. Well, Fear and Distros.
Um, we have two weapons. Our chief weapons are Fear, Distros, and an almost Fanatical devotion to the Penguin.
Err. The Linux Inquisition has three weapons - Fear, Distros, and an almost Fanatical devotion to the Penguin.
Plus, we run on MSFT servers.
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you get all the disadvantages of Linux with the advantages of massive downtime, unrealeased patches to Windows Server, and you get to pay tons of cash!
Cool!
Um, what was the question?
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I thought we were at GhandiCon 3 with Microsoft but this has shades of GhandiCon 5 (my corollary).
For obvious reasons, I think they want to skip step 4.
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Microsoft acknowledges the Linux is a plaything and what better environment to play with something than in the nice little sandbox of a VM.
Yup, with friends like that, who needs enemies.
I can imagine it now.... this new service pack is probably getting patches like
This has all the makings of a fat lady on stilts.