Linus Torvalds To Head Windows 9 Project

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Linus Torvalds To Head Windows 9 Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday April 1, 2013 @02:00AM from the trying-something-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and a champion of free and open source software has finally called it a day and has agreed to join Microsoft as the project head of the upcoming Windows 9 project. According to Bloomberg, Linus will be working on a new Kernel design for Microsoft that will make, usually vulnerable, Windows OS virtually impossible to be infected by viruses and malware."

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The 90s called by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-01 02:02 · Score: 5, Funny

They want their MS criticism and jokes back.
Just the mobile version by halcyon1234 · 2013-04-01 02:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

Saw this on the announce newslist the other day. As always, editors get it wrong. Linus is only working on the Windows 9 Mobile division, not the head of the whole project.

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1. Re:Just the mobile version by Rob+Riggs · 2013-04-01 02:26 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Ballmer? That's not what I heard. According to inside sources, Billy Gates secretly adopted Torvalds. (How do you think he got into this country so easily?) Gates needs a someone with real geek cred to take over as Chairman when he fully retires. He has been grooming Torvalds for this role outside the MS spotlight. Torvalds stands to inherit Gates' fortune and company. His constant criticism of the company is due to him worrying about the shape it will be in when he is finally allowed to take over. Anyone at MSFT that wants a job when that happens better heed his warnings.
  
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2. Re:Just the mobile version by ByOhTek · 2013-04-01 02:35 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  RMS was stolen by Apple for hygenic reasons.
  
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Finally by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-01 02:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Finally someone at Microsoft made a good desicion
Re:Stop with the lame April Fool's encryption. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-01 02:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

Not using an Ad Blocker? Slashdotter, I expected better from you.
Re:Stop with the lame April Fool's encryption. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-01 02:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

A user getting self-righteous butthurt over stupid April Fool's joke... Slashdot, I expected exactly this.
Re:Best April fools ever by Monkey-Man2000 · 2013-04-01 02:45 · Score: 4, Insightful

I have to give kudos to /. for the most original and hilarious April fools prank. Well done! The ROT13 is genious :)
The OMG Ponies' fools day was by far the best 04/01 in /. history. This is not too horrible though.

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