Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader shares a Softpedia article: Microsoft has finally acknowledged the potential that the open-source world in general, and Linux in particular, boasts, so the company is exploring its options to expand in this area with every occasion. Most recently, an episode posted on Channel 9 and entitled "Improvements to Bash on Windows and the Windows Console" with senior program manager Rich Turner calls for Linux developers to give up on their platforms for Windows 10. "Fire up a Windows 10 Insiders' build instance and run your code, run your tools, host your website on Apache, access your MySQL database from your Java code," he explained. Turner went on to point out that the Windows subsystem for Linux is there to provide developers with all the necessary tools to code just like they'd do it on Linux, all without losing the advantages of Windows 10. "Whatever it is that you normally do on Linux to build an application: whether it's in Go, in Erlang, in C, whatever you use, please, give it a try on Bash WSL, and importantly file bugs on us. It really makes our life a lot easier and helps us build a product that we can all use and be far more productive with, he continued. Editor's note: The original title from Softpedia was edited because it was misleading. A Microsoft employee doesn't represent the entire company (at least in this instant he wasn't speaking for the company), and at no point has he asked "all Linux developers" to "give up" on Linux.

Comments

LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, sure...

Why?

[MightyMartian]

Why the fuck would any Linux developer want to do this? It's not as if Windows 10 offers any significant, or even real, architectural advantage, and it's not like Linux doesn't have plenty of its own development tools. So far as I can tell, Windows 10 has absolutely no developer advantages at all, and in fact, simply represents a pointless extra layer for any developer working on Linux.

You know, I almost preferred the Gates-Ballmer Microsoft, because it was brilliantly maniacal. The new Microsoft is just a whining pathetic pack of halfwits who can't really even decide what direction their company should go. Sure, they may be more open source friendly, but so the fuck what?

Re: Why?

[MightyMartian]

Sure they can't. The OOXML format is a good example of how Microsoft can use supposedly open processes to push through a proprietary system. I have little faith in Microsoft at the best of times, but of late, with the awful half-assedness of Windows 10 (not to mention its near constant attempts to sell me shit because I didn't invest in the enterprise edition), I'm not even sure if I care what Microsoft's intentions are, because at this point, I think incompetence has replaced malice.

Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux

[fisted]

The modern "desktop" is touch based running on your phone.

But what device do you use to do actual work then?

Re:So much hostility

[fisted]

no basement.

Deal breaker.

Over my dead Zune!

[Tablizer]

Over my dead Zune!

And the value proposition is what, exactly?

[dskoll]

So let me get this straight. I should switch from a free development environment, that I can install on as many machines as I want, that doesn't feed me ads, that doesn't phone home with my information, that doesn't auto-update unless I configure it to and that ships with source code, to a system that costs money, costs more money to install on multiple machines, feeds me ads, phone home with my information, auto-updates by default and is closed-source?

What's the value proposition here, again?

Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux

[roman_mir]

My desktop being my computer, right? I am running Mint right now with xfce on my laptop, 2 monitors, one with a bunch of terminal sessions, another with a browser (the one I am posting this from).

I don't need anything to overtake anything for me to have my desktop based on a GNU/Linux distro, I am not being 'pedantic', I seriously don't understand people who are talking about it this way. My year of Linux on a desktop happened back in 2001.