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."

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Re:Virtually Meaningless

[scum-e-bag]

This is virtually non-sensical to me. Can anybody explain this to me in English?

Microsoft admits that linux is going to obliterate windows.

Microsoft can not continue its current business model of assimilating applications into the operating system because the GPL would require complete opening and free distribution of MS source code whenever MS interfaced its code with GPL code. This would kill the current assimilation model.

Microsoft is vainly attempting to position itself to sit as a layer between the hardware and linux; and by doing so hopes to create a market place.

By doing this Microsoft is allowing linux to behave in a very similar fashion to Java and its VM.

The MS OS department is old and slowly breathing its last breaths. Its xbox offspring, however, is bouncing ahead!