Well they took Cyclone & made Vault C, so they might as well go along with Inferno/Plan9 too. Interestingly enough, Singularity is written in Sing#, yet another MS-specific language. ugh. I think F# is the only thing to have recently escaped MSR (well, besides LINQ, although they killed Comega).
Well, they do have a branch called "MicroSoft Research" that they seem
fond of putting money into. And apparently, a portion of that has
gone into making an Inferno/Plan 9 -equivalent, thus far dubbed, "MS
Singularity". Development has been going on for quite some time, it
seems. Think it'll outweigh what we have going with Plan 9?
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From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 13:27:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?
And don't forget MS' programming motto, 'Don't think; Type!'
On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
It seems that MS is pushing webdav hard.
that's what's needed when heavy things run out of fuel.
to paraphrase Edison, MS' genius is 1% development and 99% marketing.