Waffelson@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?message-squaremessage-square114linkfedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1112arrow-down1message-squareWhat will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?Waffelson@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square114linkfedilinkfile-text
Will they lobby for laws that prohibit Linux or make it difficult to install? What actions might they take in the future?
minus-squaredihutenosa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoAn official Microsoft Linux distro has existed for a while now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Linux There’s more Linux than Windwoes VMs in Azure, I hear.
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoit never ceases to be mind boggling that IT in most institutions are still so closely married to windows when it’s clear that the landscape has changed and it makes me suspect that they will be the last bastions of windows dominance.
minus-squareZorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoActive Directory is a hell of a drug, as is Group Policy
minus-squareZucca@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year ago… and unfortunately so is Share Point.
minus-squareZorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoOof, yeah, sharepoint is horrible
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agomore like a cult when you bring up heresy like SIGNIFICANTLY better tools/methodology. ie ansible or IaC
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoBusinesses live and die by if it broke don’t fix it. They’re still a non insignificant number of businesses using Cobol applications.
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoi would put ruby in that category too since it now feels like a fad that i have never seen since. lol
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An official Microsoft Linux distro has existed for a while now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Linux
There’s more Linux than Windwoes VMs in Azure, I hear.
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it never ceases to be mind boggling that IT in most institutions are still so closely married to windows when it’s clear that the landscape has changed and it makes me suspect that they will be the last bastions of windows dominance.
Active Directory is a hell of a drug, as is Group Policy
… and unfortunately so is Share Point.
Oof, yeah, sharepoint is horrible
more like a cult when you bring up heresy like SIGNIFICANTLY better tools/methodology. ie ansible or IaC
Businesses live and die by if it broke don’t fix it.
They’re still a non insignificant number of businesses using Cobol applications.
Mostly die.
i would put ruby in that category too since it now feels like a fad that i have never seen since. lol