Microsoft Rep To Keynote Unix Conference

Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 13, 2005 @12:31PM from the talking-things-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNET Microsoft is going to be keynoting the Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group conference. From the article: '"Don't be put off by Chris' Microsoft badge -- he is actually a long time Unix hacker," the user group said today in a statement updating users on presentations at the conference ... Green, Microsoft's local Unix Interoperability and High Performance Computing specialist, will update the conference on his company's "Unix and open source-related activities, including their efforts to provide a POSIX environment in Windows, and to integrate Windows and Unix systems."'"

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Long-time Unix Hacker... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-13 13:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

It's funny they say that because I went to Microsoft career talks at my university (York University in Toronto) and every time a (different guy) came in and the first thing they said was:

"... I was unix hacker for a long time before I decided Microsoft's the way to go ..."