Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab, said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7. "What we have heard predominantly from customers is that they want to be able to mix and match their data center applications, but we haven't seen significant demand for Linux applications on the desktop or for desktop virtualization on top of Linux," Ramji said in an address titled "Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and on the Wire."
But, he said that while he does hear a lot of requests for this from developers in the Linux community, the feedback Microsoft is getting from customers and its Interoperability Executive Customer Council with regard to the desktop is that they want .Net and Java interoperability.
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But, he said that while he does hear a lot of requests for this from developers in the Linux community, the feedback Microsoft is getting from customers and its Interoperability Executive Customer Council with regard to the desktop is that they want .Net and Java interoperability.
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The EULAs of the higher-end Vistas all allow it to run virtualized. The lower ends expressly forbid it. And all previous Windows releases I am aware of had an EULA allowed it to run virtualized.
Then stop creating FUD campaigns trying to discredit Linux! Microsoft has no interest in working closer with Linux to benefit the consumer - it only cares about profit. For every progressive and worthwhile thing I hear from Microsoft I hear something from another division counteracting it. The move to limit DX10 to Vista is a perfect example of a backward moved designed to manipulate and control consumers. I know they have some "technical" excuses but then the same was said about IE being too tightly integrated into Windows.
.NET is the opposite- it is language agnostic (and platform dependent). Where Java will compile to bytecode which runs on any JVM, .NET (which is a collection of programming languages) will all compile to the SAME bytecode and will run on any system which has a .NET implementation (which is currently only Windows).
What else is new?
i assume, no1's asking for it, that is why they dont talk about server 2003, server 2008
Glassed Silver:mac
i assume, no1's asking for it, that is why they dont talk about server 2003, server 2008
Glassed Silver:mac
What are you talking about, people not asking for Server 2003? While Server 2003 isn't big in the web server division, it is almost solo-dominant in the network server division (because of Active Directory).
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