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The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux

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A canard -- _everybody_ needs Linux, in one way or another.

But anyway:

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"The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux"

The rumors are true. Microsoft is bringing Ubuntu to Windows. Sort of. 
Jack Wallen breaks down what we know and blends it with a bit of his own 
speculation.
By Jack Wallen  | April 11, 2016, 7:43 AM PST

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-truth-comes-out-microsoft-needs-
linux/

A week or so ago it was announced that Microsoft was planning on bringing 
Ubuntu to Windows. At that time no one was sure what exactly this meant. 
Were we going to see a full-blown Unity GUI running on top of the Windows 
OS? Was this the official end of a very long war between Microsoft and 
open source? Would this herald the world-wide acceptance for Linux on the 
desktop?

No.
Who'll ever know.
Wouldn't that be nice.

I reached out to Canonical to find out the truth behind this move to have 
my suspicions validated. This had nothing to do with the GUI...or 
bringing Ubuntu to Windows. What this is all about is bash...the command 
line. Even though we had pundits speculating that we'd see a full user-
mode Linux image running on Windows, the truth is (or so says the 
Canonical PR folk), this is only commands specific to servers and 
development.[. . .]

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