Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

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[–]BobOki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think you are missing the 3rd party portion I said. You are, of course, correct that SSO exists for Linux, but it is hardly at a OS level and available to inject auth to anything that allows passthrough without SAML. Yes, that gap is shortening, but I am sorry Linux just is NOT an enterprise application yet for daily usage. It is a superior server in many ways, but it's desktop environment from both usage and remote/automated management is just years behind. And don't fool yourself, it is enough behind that anyone wanting to use linux apps use MacOS instead and sideload those apps there. And don't forget, Apple gave up trying to make their OS enterprise too when they killed their server.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Automated management on Linux is about 20 years ahead of Windows, which is why the heart of every tech company is Linux. Perhaps the HR-droids use Windows or Mac, but anyone doing anything important runs Linux.

I still have no idea what you mean by "at a OS level".

[–]BobOki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Probably because you only use linux... rofl. Also pretty sure you do not know what automated management is either it seems.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I know how to manage a billion machines, if I had them.

[–]BobOki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well congrats! I handle around half of that currently.