With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won?

sfcrazy writes "The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, once said, 'If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.' Microsoft yesterday released one of its cash cows, Microsoft Office, for Android. Since Microsoft has a very vague idea of what users want and is suffering from lock-in, the app is just an Android front end of Office 365 and is accessible only by the paid users. There are already quite a lot of office suites available on Android including Office Pro, QuickOffice and KingSoft, so Microsoft will have to struggle there. Still it's a Microsoft core application coming to Linux. So, it looks like Linus has won."

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Re:I don't know, has he?

[MightyMartian]

Absolute nonsense. Dalvik and other Android components have been heavily optimized within the Linux kernel and userspace. Yes, I'm sure parts of Android probably are portable, but considering Linux's appeal both for its available source code and its licensing, why would Google even want to waste enormous resources moving it to another OS?