Re: """Standard""" software (was: Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon)

rbowman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:22:30 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2026-06-27, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:03:12 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2026-06-26, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:34:01 +1200, Your Name wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2026-06-25 05:55:22 +0000, Nuno Silva said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> And who declared Microsoft products "standard software"?
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the business world did years ago ...
>>>>
>>>> Is this the same “business world” that has largely moved its
>>>> operations into the cloud these days? The cloud that is dominated by
>>>> Linux?
>>>
>>> Shhhhh... don't say that too loudly.  Bill might not like it.
>>
>> Regardless of what BillG might think, Microsoft freely admit that these
>> days. Even their own cloud service is predominantly Linux-based,
>> and they see no shame in admitting it.
> 
> Not like the old days, when IIS wasn't ready for prime time and they had
> to resort to Linux-based web servers.

IIS finally is ready for prime time?  I only used it once on a DOI project 
where they were touchy about installing anything that wasn't MickeySoft.
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