A shocking news came from the meeting of the open source developers (FOSDEM) being held in Brussels: Microsoft would be seriously considering bringing its Office suite to the Penguin 2014, in the wake of the more widespread platform which should take place during 2013 .
Usually from the various meetings of the developers of GNU / Linux, which are held throughout the year in different locations around Europe and they do not show anything really significant, being mostly meetings of community members and not of representatives of various companies in the sector, except of course most important events like LinuxTag and LinuxCon.
But what is emerging from the Free Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) going on these days in Brussels, Belgium, it would seem entirely disprove this Convention, see what the famous Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com reported on the site these days.
The news is in fact one of the truly historic to the entire world of Penguin, and concerns one of the historic "rivals" of the open source community, Microsoft In fact, according to reports from Larabel, the Redmond would be seriously considering to port of its popular office suite, Microsoft Office, for the GNU / Linux platform and release it to the public during 2014.
The decision was made based on the recent events in the world of Penguin, especially in gaming (Steam Linux, Ouya, etc..) And mobile (Android, Firefox OS, Ubuntu Phone OS, etc..), Which should the forecast for Microsoft lead to a significant increase in users of the Penguin, such as to justify an investment by Redmond for the development of Office for GNU / Linux.
Of course, the company Steve Ballmer a long time ago is showing signs of openness to the GNU / Linux: it contributes to the development of the kernel with several lines of code and bug fixes, was official sponsor of the LinuxTag 2012 in Berlin and continued development of Skype for Linux after its acquisition, provided for over a year, releasing versions 4.0 and 4.1.
However, it is really impressive to see how Redmond to be convinced that the spread of the Penguin is likely to increase, so think seriously to propose their own office suite of such a system similar to Mac OS X, a symptom of how the wind is changing in 'eternal "OS war".
The arrival of Office on GNU / Linux could encourage even more the average user to spend on such a system in place to Windows and Mac OS X, and this may seem a disadvantage for Microsoft, but remember that the losses in terms SO licenses could be safely retrieved from Redmond with those arising from Linux Office.
The fact is that the Penguin is increasingly gaining importance among historic rivals of open source.
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