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Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the end-of-the-road dept.

lilrowdy18 writes "According to a recent article, Microsoft will stop releasing any new versions of Services for Unix. SFU 3.5 will continue to be supported until 2011 and will have extended support until 2014. From what the article hints at, Microsoft wants Unix interoperability integrated into the OS. Microsoft says that this integration couldn't be done with past architectures."

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  1. Microsoft's answer to UNIX by It+doesn't+come+easy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Embrace and extend! UNIX is doomed! Mwahahahahaha!

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  2. BSD isn't dying! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft are moving to it as well as Apple!

  3. Integrated by n9uxu8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine...what a novel concept...the ability to interact with a Unix system...they should patent that!

    Dave

    1. Re:Integrated by It+doesn't+come+easy · · Score: 5, Funny

      No no no...not interact...Microsoft plans to integrate UNIX into Window's code base. In the next five years, they will swap more and more Windows code for UNIX code. Eventually, there will be more UNIX code than legacy Windows code. At which point Microsoft will 1) claim ownership of UNIX, 2) begin to release Windows only UNIX code so you have to run Windows to get the "full experience of UNIX", and 3) hire analysts to compare the TCO of Windows vs. other UNIX systems.

      It's about time UNIX benefitted from Microsoft's years of marketing experience...

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  4. Perhaps they should change the name now, too? by Shoten · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instead of Microsoft SFU, perhaps it would be better known as Microsoft STFU?

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  5. New kernel by marcantonio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft says that this integration couldn't be done with past architectures.

    Because, unbeknownced to the world, Microsoft is using a BSD kernel in Vista.

    Use Cygwin.