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Microsoft to 'Support and Usurp' Unix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 14, 2006 @12:48AM from the highly-unlikely-in-the-near-future dept.

qedramania writes "Computerworld has a report on the latest Windows server release and their Unix strategy." From the article: "R2 is built on the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and is geared towards specific workloads such as storage management, branch office server management, as well as identity and access management. It also provides a subsystem which supports Posix applications."

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If you cant beat them... by tsa · 2006-03-14 00:50 · Score: 4, Funny

If you can't beat them, join them!

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Come on with the links... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-14 01:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Why do article submitters assume us UNIX guys know all the latest buzzwords and upstart companies in computing? For the uninitiated, Microsoft are a software publisher who sell a toy operating system called Windows.