Reply to post: Re: @Snake - Microsoft shooting itself in the foot?

Microsoft frees Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 from the shackles of, er, Windows?

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Re: @Snake - Microsoft shooting itself in the foot?

>Companies had at least two decades to explore the world of a free and open source OS

And they concluded that swapping Word for Emacs+Latex, Excel for R+Fortran and Powerpoint for Ascii-art+screen wasn't really viable.

Now they are exploring swapping Office365 running on a chrome based browser running on an OS they pay for and has to be totally replaced when Redmond decides to end support - for running Office365 on a chrome based browser on a free OS with permanent support

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