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PC Magazine: How to Kill Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 23, 2005

“While chatting over dinner with the executives of a middleware
company during the recent RSA conference for encryption and
security in San Francisco, I heard about a secret project. It
concerned the development of a version of Linux that runs smoothly
as a task under Windows. The project was completed and then
shelved. Whether it will ever reemerge is doubtful, but it does
offer some interesting possibilities and hints as to what Microsoft
may be up to with MS-Linux.

“The immediate usefulness of Linux running under Windows is
obvious. You can use all the Windows drivers for all the
peripherals that don’t run under Linux…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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