RE: FN-FORUM: Microsoft opens DOOrS to Linux emulator

date posted 1st April 2003 19:40


> > very interesting ;)
> >
> > http://www.vnunet.com/News/1139874
> >
> > Microsoft opens DOOrS to Linux emulator
> > By James Middleton [01-04-2003]
> > But Redmond will still demand licence revenue
> >
> > Microsoft has thrown in the towel and gone back to its very dark and
> distant
> > roots in the Unix world with a surprise announcement today that it is
> > working on a Linux emulator for Windows.
> >
>

> In short it's hardly news, and it look more like a relaunch of Interix
> than a linux compatability layer.
>

Simon, did you read the whole article? The bits about Steve Ballmer raising
the guy from Led Zepplin from the dead didn't tip you off that it was an
April Fool's joke? :)

The article's down now it appears.

Elizabeth