[kwlug-disc] Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software Industry

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
> Wait, what?
>
> https://linuxaria.com/article/how-linux-has-advanced-computer-technology-and-everyone-wins-as-a-result
>
>> Windows 10 will be the last desktop version of the operating system
>> that once gave Microsoft dominance in the PC software market. After
>> that, Windows will be offered on a subscription basis and run from
>> the cloud, but this will not be a Microsoft-exclusive cloud.
>> Internally, Windows will be virtualized within software containers
>> running on Ubuntu.
>
> I understand this to mean that the desktop OS distributed by Microsoft
> will be Ubuntu, running a VM that runs Windows from The Cloud.  Am I
> just insufficiently caffeinated?
>

I did not see that part as a direct quote from a source that would say
'this is what Microsoft will do'.

To me, it seems to be speculation.

Microsoft is going to a lot of trouble to force people to upgrade to
Windows 10, and that seems to be their modus operandi under its new
CEO.

If they go hosted, they lose a significant chunk of people who are not
in industrialized countries with broadband connections.

Google Chrome is not the same, since they don't have a base that they
risk losing if they go hosted. They are trying to carve a niche within
a connected population.