[elmo2you]

Monopoly abuse by any other name is still just that.

Microsoft never did change, nor will it, no mater how many they manage to fool, manipulate or bribe. It remains a criminal enterprise that should be cut down. But that will never happen, as long as the government(s) controlling this company are made of the same DNA.

Good luck to those who have the luxury of a choice to avoid this company (and similar ones). Even more if they still choose not to. Most of all, good luck for those who don't even have a choice, for they most likely will need luck more than anyone else.

[agumonkey]

Microsoft shouldn't rely on this too much honestly. They still have mass, money and maybe an edge but the rest of the world changed, and is potentially ready to pick up the pieces if need be.

I thought recent efforts of MS were a sign of wisdom somehow.

[userbinator]

...and maybe an Edge?

No, they sold out to Google on that already.

[agumonkey]

unintended pun, gods spoke through me

[nix23]

Yeah funny times we life in, from Oracle you get a free enterprise linux, from Microsoft a opensoured MSDOS 1.0 ;)

Edit: Correction, MSDOS 1.25 and 2.0 was released too

[vbezhenar]

Oracle basically rebuilds RHEL. It's not a tiny feat, but it was done by small teams for CentOS, Scientific Linux and other RHEL rebuilds. Real distribution work is done by RHEL/IBM.

[orionblastar]

Microsoft released their own Linux: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-released-cbl-mar...

As far as opensource DOS, nothing beats FreeDOS: https://www.freedos.org/

[nix23]

>>CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and edge products and services.

Oh yes please...i want that universal Linux Distribution ;)

>nothing beats FreeDOS

Dosbox and dosbox-x beat FreeDOS anyday.

[anthk]

Call me when you can run real drivers in DOSBox-X.

And, still, XDOSemu+FreeDOS runs circles over DOSBox and DOSBox-x.

[nix23]

> Call me when you can run real drivers in DOSBox-X.

That's exactly what i don't want.

>And, still, XDOSemu+FreeDOS runs circles over DOSBox and DOSBox-x.

No, not really have you even installed FreeDOS once? BTW the FreeDOS developers will perfectly tell you that they have no interest in being dos game focused...and you can feel that 50% of all games just refuse to run...that's not the case with MSDOS 5.22.

[anthk]

I can feel that your comment is utterly bullshit.

FreeDOS runs the 99% of software and drivers available for DOS.