Micro$oft profit-maximizing?
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:24:29 +0200
#^Last phase of the desktop wars?
So, you’re a Microsoft corporate strategist. What’s the profit-maximizing path forward given all these factors?
It’s this: Microsoft Windows becomes a Proton-like emulation layer over a Linux kernel, with the layer getting thinner over time as more of the support lands in the mainline kernel sources. The economic motive is that Microsoft sheds an ever-larger fraction of its development costs as less and less has to be done in-house.
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My reality looks like this: I'm running the full Office 365 in my (Chromium-) Linux browser and even use MSTeams' Linux client to connect to my colleagues on our employer's enterprise instance. Haven't been starting Windows in weeks, if not month, while still being totally depended and locked in on the Microsoft cloud/platform. I don't like it, but it certainly works almost too well... and gives me the freedom to use any of my 5 Linux notebooks for work instead of schlepping the corporate machine across the house...