Most definitely “both”: Microsoft between free software … – Heise Newsticker

As for some time Microsoft has also shown at this year’s edition of the developer conference build again very open to free software. Windows but still far from the scrap heap

It’s been a remarkable strategy hodgepodge that Microsoft has presented at this year’s edition of the developer conference Build. On the one hand, you might think . Windows operating system is the Redmondern no longer as important as before

to Microsoft Build 2016:

the image that Microsoft chief Satya Nadella has painted his vision for the future of Computerei not need basically no longer operating system, at least for the end user: the intended future by writing or voice, but in any case in natural language, express their wishes and intelligent bots take care then why to make appointments, to book hotel rooms or buy goods. Cortana, the digital assistant of Windows 10 should support the user while – now they also answered questions on other systems. Their knowledge and intelligence, it relates, of course from the Microsoft cloud

Speaking of Cloud: As the backbone of the Internet of Things – neudeutsch IoT – they should in future not only Windows or Windows IoT-core devices. connection offer, but also support hardware virtually any source. Developers can ever practice with cheapest IoT starter.

Programmer temptations

Especially for developers, it seems Microsoft but not at all to care what operating system they use. The two top news of the Build targets anyway from it, to keep programmers in the Windows bar or return it there. As would be the one Xamarin: This software maker Microsoft had taken over recently. His product: a framework, which can be used on Windows and with the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment Apps not only for Windows (and Windows Phone) build, but with largely identical source code for Android and OS X. This library is now open source and is now Visual Studio users even gratuitously bids, if they use the free Community Edition of the IDE.

the second real cracker of Build to discourage especially web developers from switching to Linux : see the future under Windows 10, not only the Linux bash shell before, but an extensive subsystem, where most text-based Linux programs to run, including interpreter for scripting languages ​​or the Apache Web server. Unlike the Linux environment Cygwin programs having to not be translated specifically for Windows. Rather, the user can easily download binaries from the repository of Ubuntu 14:04 and install.

Whether the Linux subsystem already is part of the announced for the summer of this year Anniversary Update for Windows 10, is not yet known. Microsoft has made hard against it, as a main focus of the update to improve the stick operation of Windows. For this, the operating system is a “Windows Ink” get mentioned component in the drawing with the stylus should be facilitated, inter alia by a virtual ruler. The new “Sticky Notes” application should understand pen input – it should appear at the request already on the login screen, so you do not have to start up the desktop the system to use it

but still Windows

So is it yet to realize that Microsoft, despite all the openness to other systems is a little on the appeal of Windows for the end user. At least on the desktop and on tablets – of Windows Phone was nothing to be seen during a total of five hours of Keynote and hear

Windows 10 was the focus of the keynote opening of Build 2016 – but on the augmented reality glasses HoloLens Microsoft is also really proud

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