<story><title>A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution</title><url>https://blog.jreypo.io/2021/07/09/a-look-into-cbl-mariner-microsoft-internal-linux-distribution/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>A MS dev writing a blog on building MS’ own distro of Linux on his _Macbook_ must have Ballmer sweating bullets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubermonkey</author><text>Fortunately, nobody has to care what Ballmer thinks anymore.&lt;p&gt;IMO he, even moreso than BillG, was the animus behind the insanely cultish POV that MSFT had for a long, long time. As recently as 2009, working there led otherwise smart people to say really dumb things for, I guess, political reasons.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in the project management space. We have a product that compliments Project Server, and early on we did lots of joint deals with MSFT&amp;#x27;s Proj Server unit. Even well after the introduction of the iPhone -- which, for most phone makers, was a serious wakeup call about what you could do with a phone -- they acted like it was a personal insult every time they saw a professional associate using something other than Windows Mobile. &amp;quot;Get one of these! It&amp;#x27;s just as good!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that, in 2009, WinMo was a complete dumpster fire. App availability was awkward (no built-in stores yet), but there were MONSTROUS gaps in capability in the devices out of the box. For example, the native mail client couldn&amp;#x27;t do IMAP. But sure, it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;just as good&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;iPods -- which were really ubiquitous -- set them off, too. And if you mentioned having a PlayStation, they&amp;#x27;d want to know why you didn&amp;#x27;t have an XBox instead. They had &amp;quot;amnesty barrels&amp;quot; you could throw away your non-MSFT tech in. It was really, really, really goofy and rah-rah and honestly creepy.&lt;p&gt;You notice how, today, MSFT actually understands they&amp;#x27;re part of a diverse computing landscape? Sharepoint actually works on non-MSFT browsers, for example. Office 365 runs like a champ in pretty much ANY decent browser, on any platform. I can run a real iOS build of Office on my iPad, and the Mac version is really great.&lt;p&gt;ALL OF THIS is post-Ballmer.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution</title><url>https://blog.jreypo.io/2021/07/09/a-look-into-cbl-mariner-microsoft-internal-linux-distribution/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>A MS dev writing a blog on building MS’ own distro of Linux on his _Macbook_ must have Ballmer sweating bullets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discordance</author><text>Many people at Microsoft use Macs. It’s not a big deal.</text></comment>