Microsoft Trying to Appeal to the Unix Crowd?

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by brk • 18 years ago

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streblo• 18 years ago

I'd be interested to see how this pans out. The GNU compatibilities in OS X were what originally drew me away from using Windows.

brk2• 18 years ago

To a certain degree this is true for me as well. However, the (IMO) other horrible user experience in Windows was probably an equal or greater motivating factor.

It's not so much that I'm "anti-Windows" as I am pro nix. For me personally, I can get more of the things done that I want to do in a nix environment. And, for me, I can do them cheaper and more securely. I know plenty of people for which the opposite is true though.

idea2• 18 years ago

What in a Unix environment makes you more productive? The GUI of OSX is quite different from Gnome or KDE. Is it the command line with tools like grep?

Remmy• 18 years ago

I talked about this back in December of last year at a conference. They actually announced this at an EU conference back then. The original plan was for Windows 8 to allow a genuine Unix stack to co-exist along side the Windows kernel.

In a way, this would bring Microsoft full circle. Anyone remember Xenix?

seer• 18 years ago

GNU compatible framework?, Nix environment? Embrace Extend Extinguish ?

chaostheory• 18 years ago

I like this comment from zerofactorial on /.:

"This is like Satan trying to appeal to Christians."

kajecounterhack• 18 years ago

Or, if they REALLY want to appeal to the unix crowd, they could stop charging $500 for their "Ultimate SuperDuper Awesome Smashing Ballmerastic Organicasmic Edition" of Windows... Perhaps making it free? Yes, I think that would fit the bill.

Microsoft Trying to Appeal to the Unix Crowd?

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