Cloud Computing: Windows OS could one day become open source, says Microsoft’s top engineer
April 4, 2015
Grazed from IBNLinve. Author: Editorial Staff.
As Microsoft is celebrating its 40th anniversary today, we can’t help but admire at the way the software giant has been able to establish its empire on Windows operating system that runs on many of the world’s desktops, laptops, phones, and servers.
Having enjoyed such a position in the consumer and business market, will it ever open its palms and let others leverage its potential of being the most-used OS for free? One of the company’s top engineer says yes. Mark Russinovich, one of Microsoft’s top engineers said during the ChefConf conference that the company could open source the code that underpins the OS…
A lot of companies as well as Microsoft customers are now relying on open source code and Microsoft should embrace the change as well…
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