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What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ? (lemmy.world)
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Will they lobby for laws that prohibit Linux or make it difficult to install? What actions might they take in the future?

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Hear me out on this one "Microsoft Linux"

[–] chaitae3@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes exactly. Embrace and extinguish has always been Microsoft's strategy. They'll release their own distribution and either make it slower and more complicated than Windows, so that everyone thinks Windows is the better OS, or they'll make it a cloud OS like Chrome, requiring recurring payments to use Office 365 and everything else.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

I see this as the most likely outcome as well. It's the preferred route, seen all of the place lately. Want to privatize a public service? Cripple the public service enough to "prove it doesn't work" to convince people privatization is the best option. I suspect most people would switch to Microsoft Linux over something "tech" sounding like Debian or Ubuntu. When the trial of their slowed down and crashy "Linux" comes to an end, Microsoft will offer an easy solution to switch back to Windows.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Already exists as a VM option on azure

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Emulation should always be Linux emulating Windows. Windows emulating Linux is just weird.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It's a Linux distro that's called Azure Linux and it looks like it's based on Fedora if the length of package attribution is anything to go by.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Its not emulation, it's a Microsoft distro

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Two things, I was under the impression that Azure can emulate a lot of different Linux distro. Second, I thought the hypervisor ran on cut down version of Windows server.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

VMs aren't emulation. Its a full OS running on virtual hardware. Also, yes, azure offers several distros, not just Microsoft's.

The OS of the bare metal host shouldn't matter much, if at all, to the guest. If you have a philosophical issue with the hypervisor running under windows I doubt you'd be using azure to begin with.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That makes sense. Thanks.