@NSANE said in It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft:
@whizzwr: MS was shit in Opera days. I don't want to sound like a shill, but MS has improved very, very much in these last 5 years. UWP is awesome. What they're doing with Windows 10 in general is pretty great and they're enabling a lot of people (like myself) to have a free Windows license if we're students or run a business.
Since they don't make the most money out of the OS (they're mostly cloud now), I'm predicting that they might considering bridging Linux some day, or even make a fork of it. They already have VS Code which is Open Source.
I support Jon regardless! I'm a fan 🙂
Microsoft is only 'hugging up' to Linux because of the amount of Linux clients on their Azure program, which when Steve Ballmer was still in charge, 30% of their clients were Linux ones. Surely that's grown by now & that's the sole reason why today's CEO in Satya Nadella to come out & say 'We Love Linux'.
Of course he does, now that Ballmer is gone, more clients has signed up & we all love money. If Nadella truly 'loves' Linux, then he'd port the EOL OS's over for Linux devs to fork & patch/keep up to date. There would still be a market for XP, if only there were ways to fix the now 200+ missed patches that W7 & Vista received.
Anyone W10 user with a NVIDIA graphics card had best have Secunia PSI installed, as the latest bundle includes 'node.js' (a LInux Foundation product), like Java (if installed) & Flash Player, node.js is a plug in that needs to be kept up to date. The new NVIDIA driver bundle includes a version that's 3-4 releases behind. By chance, Microsoft bought themselves a Platinum membership to the Linux Foundation just months after Windows users were being shipped outdated Linux Foundation software.
If anything, Microsoft is simply using Linux to gain more control over Windows users. Windows 7 was Microsoft's best OS, and the pinnacle of Steve Ballmer's career. SInce then, it's been a mess, hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into Windows 8, while the World's #1 OS to this day doesn't have a real SP2. If anyone thinks that XP diehards were a problem, wait until 2020 when W7 reaches EOL, there'll be those running the OS for easily 2-3 more years & still have a 25% or higher market share after then.
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