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Originally Posted by leebase
The good news, is that the "new" Msft has fully embraced Linux and Android (and iOS). Msft's mobile products are excellent on both iOS and Android. Sql Server now runs on linux.
Hell hath froze over
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MS under Nadella has simply returned to its original mission as a crossplatform productivity tools company.
People forget that before Ballmer, MS supported Atari, Commodore, Apple, CP/M, XENIX (they were the largest Unix vendor on x86 for ages), or that they supported MSDOS on non-clones until that market dried up. A lot of the early Mac GUI conventions were features Apple lifted off MS WORD for the Mac in the pre-release days. (It was baked into the SDK licensing that they could. That licensing agreement was one of the reasons Apple lost the GUI lawsuit against MS.) MS under Gates was all about getting their software everywhere. Anybody remember their MSX gaming platform of the 80's? It was XBOX before XBOX. Too early for the market.
http://www.davevoyles.com/2015/10/21...e-the-msx-was/
Gates even talked to Sun about getting OFFICE on Solaris. When MacNeally realized he couldn't afford the cost he tried to hijack the Windows16 APIs with WABI, trying to get that certified as an international standard to take control away from MS. Which is where the Windows vs Unix hostility started. Until then the two coexisted nicely.
Windows everywhere was Ballmer, not MS.
In that sense, the "New" MS is really Classic MS.