The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux
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I say to Microsoft "Release Microsoft Office for Linux, and then talk away all you want"
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They're getting there... They did release SQL Server for Linux.
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@Veet said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
I say to Microsoft "Release Microsoft Office for Linux, and then talk away all you want"
A lot of us are guessing that that is coming soon. For full Office 365 users, we already have nearly the whole thing on Linux (I use it all of the time.) And MS knows that with Wine, normal Office runs really well on Linux for those that really need it. And since 2013 MS has moved Office to be non-native to Windows, using HTLM5 as the app display language. And 2016 takes that even farther. So the fairly wide held belief is that MS is readying everything for a full Linux release, but wants their ducks in a row before they do.
There is a lot of money to be captured getting Linux desktop users on to MS Office.
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@dafyre said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
They're getting there... They did release SQL Server for Linux.
The pace of Linux releases is pretty impressive. SQL Server is the big one, but .NET, too! And some Visual Studio tools.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
@dafyre said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
They're getting there... They did release SQL Server for Linux.
The pace of Linux releases is pretty impressive. SQL Server is the big one, but .NET, too! And some Visual Studio tools.
Quite. I don't expect it will be long before we see Office for Linux. I was unaware that Microsoft had released any dotNet stuff for Linux. I did know about the mono runtimes and such, but that's not straight from MS, is it?
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@dafyre said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
@scottalanmiller said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
@dafyre said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
They're getting there... They did release SQL Server for Linux.
The pace of Linux releases is pretty impressive. SQL Server is the big one, but .NET, too! And some Visual Studio tools.
Quite. I don't expect it will be long before we see Office for Linux. I was unaware that Microsoft had released any dotNet stuff for Linux. I did know about the mono runtimes and such, but that's not straight from MS, is it?
Isn't Mono .NET for Linux? I thought it was almost feature complete too.
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@coliver Yeah, it is. I'm not sure that it came straight from MS though.
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@dafyre said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
@scottalanmiller said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
@dafyre said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
They're getting there... They did release SQL Server for Linux.
The pace of Linux releases is pretty impressive. SQL Server is the big one, but .NET, too! And some Visual Studio tools.
Quite. I don't expect it will be long before we see Office for Linux. I was unaware that Microsoft had released any dotNet stuff for Linux. I did know about the mono runtimes and such, but that's not straight from MS, is it?
Correct, Mono is from Ximian, not Microsoft. Microsoft released their own .Net for Linux a few months ago.
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@coliver said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
@dafyre said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
@scottalanmiller said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
@dafyre said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
They're getting there... They did release SQL Server for Linux.
The pace of Linux releases is pretty impressive. SQL Server is the big one, but .NET, too! And some Visual Studio tools.
Quite. I don't expect it will be long before we see Office for Linux. I was unaware that Microsoft had released any dotNet stuff for Linux. I did know about the mono runtimes and such, but that's not straight from MS, is it?
Isn't Mono .NET for Linux? I thought it was almost feature complete too.
It's moderately complete, not as good of an implementation and not from MS so always playing catchup.
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Also, the macOS version of Office 2016 is near completely feature consistent with the Windows version.
And macOS is a `Nix derivative.
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@JaredBusch said in The Marriage of Microsoft and Linux:
Also, the macOS version of Office 2016 is near completely feature consistent with the Windows version.
And macOS is a `Nix derivative.
I "think" that they use native libraries there (Cocoa) so that it's a port that would have to be replicated to go to native on Linux. Maybe now that 2016 is out they will just get the JavaScript version on Mac OSX and be on parity right away and be ready for Linux, too. That's another big piece of this puzzle, going to web apps is going to allow MS to now just remove the cost of making and maintaining the Mac version, but get the Linux version for free, and stop the cost of making the secondary online version. All three current versions plus the future Linux version will collapse into one. That's a massive cost savings.
