Microsoft Linux?

It sounds impossible at first pass. Yet as you read on through this article, you slowly begin to realize something. Drivers made for specific hardware is done largely for the benefit of Microsoft’s OS. Same goes for software. But what about proprietary software, Linux doesn’t allow it? Hogwash – I use proprietary programs on Linux all the time. They simply are not bundled.

What is truly frightening is not who made the statement that Microsoft ought to consider going further into the open source realm, but that they are pointing out that it eventually, may have to happen anyway.

Whether the business models of the future for an open source OS from MS is running proprietary or open source apps, must likely a combination of both, remains to be seen. One thing is for sure, Microsoft BSD would be a home run and Microsoft knows damned well it would be, too. It would allow them to create, the next OS X if they put their noses to the grind stone and left the idiocy that is NTFS and the Windows kernel.