Microsoft's Linux and Open Source Software Lab serves as both a place to examine the threat posed to Microsoft products by open-source offerings and a venue for testing software from Microsoft and others that's designed to span that divide. The lab is home to hundreds of servers and desktops that run dozens of different types of Linux and Unix. Here are photos of the lab.
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What are Microsoft's motives wrt to this Linux lab? What do they really hope to achieve?
Well, the answer to that is simple: "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer." (Sun Tzu).
The point is, Microsoft deams Linux as a threat; and instead of discarding your enemy, it is better to get to know it, to understand why customers (*not* zealots) prefer it over Windows.
The first step to beating your enemy, is getting to know your enemy. Do you think Red Hat's HQ is a Windows-less environment? Don't count on it.
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RE: "The point is, Microsoft deams Linux as a threat; and instead of discarding your enemy, it is better to get to know it, to understand why customers (*not* zealots) prefer it over Windows."
i prefer Linux because it is both free as in beer and in opensource, and it works plenty good for me, KDE & XFCE both have multiple virtual desktops which is better than a single desktop when managing multiple applications, Linux does not have the draconian EULAs and product activation tieing the OS to the MS-borg, Linux offers a choice of distributions, microsoft wont be able to beat this offer, so MS can discect thier copies of Linux all they want and there wont be anything they can use against it, about the only thing they can do is steal ideas...
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> UTC in reply to "re: lab" ohhhhh, that looks like a massive lab, 2 desktop pc's!
Those aren't "desktop pc's" al all. Their Avocent / Cybex KVM switch frontent boxen.
In non-MCSE administrated Unix labs one 'd be more likely to find SSH/X-Window for in-band and Conserver managed serial-consoles for out-of-band stuff though (the latter either daisy-chained or via a some reverse-terminal servers.)
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Here's the homepage of that secret lab:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/
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Maybe Micro$oft in the future will do M$ Linux, a linux distribution by microsoft...
Wait...they done it now!: <a href="http://www.mslinux.org">mslinux
