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Microsoft Warms Up to Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the snuggle-snuggle dept.

prostoalex writes "InfoWorld reports that despite warming to the OS, Microsoft won't be releasing its own distribution of Linux any time soon. From the article: "Hilf acknowledged that Microsoft's commitment to Windows does not preclude the company from continuing a strategy he has led in his 19 months at the software vendor: To see how Microsoft's proprietary technologies can better interoperate with Linux and a host of other open-source software. In fact, that is exactly what will be the focus of a discussion the long-time open-source proponent will lead at this year's upcoming Linuxworld Conference & Expo next month in San Francisco. In a session entitled, 'Managing Linux in a Mixed Environment ... at Microsoft?' Hilf, who polished his open-source evangelism skills working on Linux deployments at IBM Corp., will talk about how he and the team at the Linux/Open Source lab run open source technologies in "the most Microsoft-centric IT environment on the planet." "

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  1. Maybe we could get a usable desktop? by DartonW · · Score: 0, Troll

    ..if MS actually did do a linux distro, maybe XF86 and XORG would actually work with a video card? Huh? Huh?

    1. Re:Maybe we could get a usable desktop? by DartonW · · Score: 0, Troll

      Alright, you Linux fanatic. I've used it for years - AS A SERVER OS. You simply can't get around the fact that every desktop crashes on every video card if you even try to do anything that works it hard. And the stupidity comment was a little out of line.

  2. Re:Quick! by The+Spoonman · · Score: 1, Troll

    they subtly changed the Kerberos protocol

    Not so. They took advantage of a feature in the Kerberos V5 draft spec called the data authorization field that exists in the spec, but for some reason no one else uses. They're following the spec as they're supposed to, other implementations are not.

    You've heard of "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?"
    For the slashdot/FOSS crowd it's, "If you can't beat 'em, bitch and complain about everything they do while not providing anything better."

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  3. Re:Quick! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you think just because you flunked basic logic and can't parse "elements are nodes in the document tree" as anything other than "all nodes in a document tree are elements", that you have a case?

    Go away, Mr. Troll. You have other issues to concern yourself with.

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