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From: Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: MS recommends Cygwin
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6386FC.90701@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC4i1z2mD1EL=H7DsVYm8hRDA-r8N0iO-J4k=U7+6N0JHzAm8A@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/16/2012 12:24 PM, David Eisner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Warren Young<warren@etr-usa.com>  wrote:
>> What I can't see happening is the iPadification of Windows Server.  I can
>
> Indeed:
>
> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/SAC-416T
>
> "All server apps should be restructured to run on Windows Server
> systems without a GUI stack...PowerShell....ya ya ya...

Waitamminit....  you're telling me Windows Server 8 can finally work 
like PDP-8 Unix?

I should have seen that coming.  It's not the iPadification of Windows 
Server, it's the VMification.  Same effect, in this case: MS still wants 
the classic desktop to die.

The pendulum, she keeps on swinging....

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-16 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-15 11:42 Andy Koppe
2012-03-15 12:48 ` Warren Young
2012-03-15 18:44   ` Christopher Faylor
2012-03-16 15:04     ` Warren Young
2012-03-16 18:24       ` David Eisner
2012-03-16 18:31         ` Warren Young [this message]

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