* Posts by John Morris

1 publicly visible post • joined 8 Jun 2009

Microsoft's software vision chief embraces future horror

John Morris
Linux

MS has its ARM up its arse and its head in the cloud

I have a lovely ARM NAS device, works like a charm, uptime of around a year serving all my media to wherever I am in the world. Runs Linux. I'm looking forward to a lot of ARM based devices, it's a good chipset.

I regularly use clouds/grids and have done for years. Never seen anything but Linux on them.

On lunch from a grid training course today (gotta keep up to date). First question from the teacher was "Is anyone not familiar with a UNIX like system?" Nobody put up their hand.

OK, so that's rather specific to me and my colleagues, but the point is that grids/cloud are working very well and are very mature already under Linux and development isn't about to stop. MS have a mountain to climb and a lot of *NIX admins to convince who will have strong views about MS.