You could be witnessing a shift toward Windows being nothing more than a Window Manager running on FreeBSD. By distancing .Net from Windows, Microsoft could be delineating its product lines and saying that .Net products will interoperate with the rest of the computer industry.
One can only hope this is true. The software maker's attempts to bad-mouth and undermine competition (Novell and DR DOS in the early days and Linux today) have created a deeply divided industry. Having Windows expertise should provide some benefit when you move to a different OS on the same hardware. It does not. Moving from one OS to another will always be painful, but it shouldn't be impossible.
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for Juniper Networks, explains how the advanced technology is transforming operations.
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