Re: The joy of Democracy

On 23 Oct 2024 23:26:39 GMT, rbowman wrote:

The new boss went back to Windows Server.

I’m just looking at actual market trends from now, not 20 years ago. Look
at Microsoft’s roadmap for Windows Server: the on-prem version is now very
much an afterthought, with the cloud version getting most of the
(remaining) development resources.

And as you well know, the cloud is already dominated by Linux. So think of
this as a rearguard action by Windows Server, a retreat into an area where
Microsoft can still play licensing games to make it seem more attractive
than Linux. Licensing games that other cloud providers are not allowed to
play with Windows.

The workstations were Windows.

No, they were desktops, not workstations. Windows NT “Workstation” was
just a desktop OS with multitasking.