The New 'One Microsoft' Is Finally Poised For the Future

redletterdave writes: "The stodgy old enterprise company whose former CEO once called open source Linux a 'cancer' is gone. So is its notorious tendency to keep developers and consumers within its walled gardens. The 'One Microsoft' goal that looked like more gaseous corporate rhetoric upon its debut last summer now is instead much closer to actual reality. No longer are there different kernels for Windows 8, Windows Phone or Windows RT it's now all just One Windows. As goes the Windows kernel, so goes the entire company. Microsoft finally appears to have aimed all its guns outside the company rather than at internal rivals. Now it needs to rebuild its empire upon this new reality."

Comments

Re:One Kernel? What Does That Mean?

[thevirtualcat]

Yes, it's true. They run the same kernel.

But no, you can't run Windows applications on a Windows RT or Windows Phone device.

iOS runs the same kernel as Mac OS X, but you can't run OS X applications on iOS.
Android uses the Linux kernel, but you can't run Linux Desktop applications on Android. (At least, not without a lot of work adding the needed libraries and recompiling everything for ARM.)

"Same kernel" doesn't mean "all the applications are interoperable."

Re:That's not the only thing that's gone...

[lord_mike]

.NET seems to live in a zombie state, not really dead, but not really alive, either. They haven't killed it, but they aren't going to expand on it, either. Who knows where things really stand. The RT strategy seems to be in constant flux, too.

Re:A possum playing possum

[sconeu]

Excuse me????? IBM never wielded or abused the kind of power that MS had????

Do you recall ever hearing ANYTHING about a 13 year antitrust trial? Or do you know the origin of the term "FUD"?

Re:doubt it

[phantomfive]

How's that? The MS servers are already better in that they've never been wide-open with Heartbleed like Linux servers are.

This one is ten times worse than Heartbleed

I call BS

[benjymouse]

The links have long disappeared due to DCMA takedowns.....

No they haven't. You just do not want slashdot readers to read them, because they do not say what you claim.

http://www.internetnews.com/de...

Quote from that article:

One technology enthusiast at Web site kuro5shin noted many of the hacks (additions) to the code base included some colorful comments and creative use of adjectives in noting programming changes.

In this case, the reviewer concluded the code was generally "excellent." But he also noted the many additions to the Windows code to be almost universally compatible with previous Windows versions. And third-party software has "clearly come at a cost, both in developer-sweat and the elegance (and hence stability and maintainability) of the code."

GP is correct, those who took a look at it indeed came away with the impression that it was quite pristine.

You, OTOH, are just lying.