Microsoft's Looming 'Single Windows Ecosystem'

jfruhlinger writes "Xbox on Windows 8? A shared PC-tablet OS? Hints have been coming fast and furious from Microsoft about what their next-generation OS strategy will look like. It may be that at its heart, Microsoft is doing what it should have been doing for the last 5 years: building a set of modular OS components for different platforms that work together when need be, rather than a group of competing and incompatible OSes with superficially similar branding. In other words, the company may be getting out of its own way, at last."

Comments

Re:"building a set of MODULAR OS components for

[Anonymous Coward]

No in Linux they only work sometimes

One OS

[gtall]

One OS to rule them, One OS to bind them, One OS....to lead them all to perdition.

All funded by Android

[phonewebcam]

based on Linux, a set of modular OS components for different platforms that work together when need be. Since 1991.

Finally

[Cajun Hell]

Only read the summary, not TFA, but it sounds like they're finally switching to Linux.

Having Microsoft everywhere will be great

[MrKaos]

We don't really need diversity in computers we should just learn to run Microsoft on everything from watches to mainframes because windows is the best operating systems ever. If it wasn't for Microsoft there would be no innovation anywhere so basically we should have a formal Microsoft tax and just pay Microsoft to own everything.

It's a good thing that Microsoft use their patent portfolio to stop anyone else in the industry from trying to make anything new because Microsoft would do it better anyway so why even try. Case in point, Google, they should just give up on android and give that market to Microsoft because android is owned by microsoft anyway.

All those dumb nerd who write that crappy open source software (that never works properly on anything) should be donating their time to Microsoft anyway, actually they should be paying Microsoft to be volunteers to write more software for windows. It's been proven in the past with IE6, the most successful and best web browser ever just how innovative Microsoft can be. Apple and Linux should just give up because everything Microsoft everywhere for everyone for ever will be good for all of us.

It's a world I look forward to every day.