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[CaniblCat]

Sounds to me like Microsoft finally saw the proverbial writing on the wall.
Maybe we'll eventually even see an 'OpenWindows' some time in the next four or five years.

[Szczecinianin]

I wouldn't count on Open Windows. Still, MS apparently saw maybe not so much the writing on the wall as profits in the sheets. After all, open source grows dynamically, is to be reckoned with, and not fighting it may be good for Microsoft's image. Good PR is just as crucial. And this initiative is likely to be more of an addendum than new way of thinking.

[YellowEagle]

Szczecinianin, on 13 April 2012 - 03:09 AM, said:

I wouldn't count on Open Windows. Still, MS apparently saw maybe not so much the writing on the wall as profits in the sheets. After all, open source grows dynamically, is to be reckoned with, and not fighting it may be good for Microsoft's image. Good PR is just as crucial. And this initiative is likely to be more of an addendum than new way of thinking.

I agree, But Microsoft obliviously has something planned in the back ground. It does loose money as Linux in Business gains. Even on the general desktop user. How many do you think will come over to Linux with the new Metro Operating System? The majority of people don't like it and it's not even on the market yet. And PR in the real world both Business and private is big Money, even bad Pr makes money. Microsoft makes money on both ends, though the hope for more open collaboration in software between Open Source and Closed Source software would be nice, both party's would benefit, as well as the peoples and business's that would use this software. The end result would put a lot of pressure on Apple and other Proprietary company's.

[symbolset]

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

[YellowEagle]

symbolset, on 14 April 2012 - 04:48 PM, said:

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

Most of us would agree, that's Microsoft's motto in the board room.

[mohammedi]

after the free-software divide of open-software MS have no fair to be opensource which make it more deep on enterprise solutions