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Linus Torvalds To Head Windows 9 Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. The 90s called by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They want their MS criticism and jokes back.

  2. Just the mobile version by halcyon1234 · · 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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  3. Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally someone at Microsoft made a good desicion

  4. Re:Stop with the lame April Fool's encryption. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A user getting self-righteous butthurt over stupid April Fool's joke... Slashdot, I expected exactly this.