good points

Posted Apr 2, 2016 17:04 UTC (Sat) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: good points by h2
Parent article: Ubuntu on Windows

It's much more likely that MS is targetting os x here, not gnu/linux

It seems that Microsoft's offering is very much a server-side thing (given that, for example, it doesn't come with a GUI). How that is really supposed to be an attack on OS X, which is approximately as popular on servers as Linux is on desktops, in other words not all that much, is something you would need to explain in more detail.

good points

Posted Apr 2, 2016 18:58 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

It's not an attack on MacOS. It's "attack on" developers which are stuck on MacOS. I know a lot of guys who are using MacOS instead of Windows because MacOS is "real Unix" (albeit a poor one) and Windows is not.

They don't comprise a huge percentage of population, thus this "attack" wouldn't directly bring number of MacOS users down. But they represent guys who are influencing others thus effect could be significant down the road.

But as someone on the other forum (don't remember which one) have pointed out that all these ideas fail Hanlon's razor (the infamous: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity).

It looks that Microsoft finally realized that it's ambitious project to save Windows Phone could instead bring down the whole house of card (OS/2 style) and cancelled it then was faced with a question: "could we salvage anything usable from the wreckage?" - and this is the result.

No deep plans, no well-thought attacks, just sheer bestial fear of an Android and the desire to at least use result of hundred man-years of work somehow...