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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."
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."
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"?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
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
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."