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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. Couldn't be done? by Alt_Cognito · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is this similar to the way that Internet Explorer just simply couldn't have been removed from previous versions of windows?

  2. SFU...a carefully organized code. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Micrsoft's way of saying..."So? Fuck yoU!"

  3. Re:Microsoft's bait and switch by Tontoman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Management will know it's been discontinued, and the enterprise installation is at the mercy of whatever derivative Microsoft's Marketing department wants to release.

  4. Who cares about Microsoft anymore? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft might be still a large company but their proprietory virus and spyware laden insecure and crappy Windows OS is going downhill very quickly.

    Linux is already the dominant player in the server market and now it has started to become a major player on the corporate and home desktops. By next year Microsoft will be mostly associated with their XBox360 if anything.

  5. Re:Microsoft's answer to UNIX by DigitlDud · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's sad that people with mod points don't realize how right you are. Let's think here:
    UNIX (1969)
    NT (1989, based on latest OS research)
    Really, in terms of internal architecture there's no contest.