Short Bytes: The day 2 of Microsoft Build 2016 came as a shock to the tech world when Microsoft announced that it has bought Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu Linux, and shut down Ubuntu Linux forever.
From the last couple of years, fossBytes has been actively covering the developments in technology and open source. You might have come across numerous articles telling how badly Microsoft has fallen in love with Linux. The first day of Microsoft Build Developer Conference 2016 looked like another familiar affair when the company announced Bash shell for Windows.
However, the day 2 of Build 2016 came as a surprise and shock to the open source and Linux community. At the event, Microsoft announced that it has bought Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu Linux, and shut down Ubuntu Linux forever.
Earlier this week, when we reported about Ubuntu coming to Windows 10, we didn’t expect this drastic step. Today, we’ve become fully acquainted with Microsoft’s evil plan.
Along with acquiring Canonical and killing Ubuntu, Microsoft has announced that it’s making a new operating system called Windows L. Yes, L stands for Linux. Oh, and also, it won’t be open source.
You might be wondering about the Windows L. Last year in April, Microsoft patented a new technology called Multi-OS Booting for smartphones. Redmond will be using the same technology to combine Windows and Linux binaries to create a new OS that will make use of the best features of Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux.
While whole open source community is sharing its outrage on social media and online forums, Microsoft CEO has called it the start of a new era.
From its Twitter handle, Microsoft teased the boot screen of Windows L. Take a look at it below:
Yes, this was clearly an April Fools’ Day joke. We are hoping that Microsoft releases an open source operating system one day but buying Canonical and killing Ubuntu sounds like the worst thing Redmond could ever imagine.
While Windows L remains a product of our imagination, share this post with your friends to give them shock of a lifetime. 😉
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Nice April`s fools prank guys, we ain`t buying it :))
I was about ready to spit out my coffee and begin cursing out loud in this coffee shop lol
Joker
you got me guys shit 😀
man that was scary
evil
I nearly had a heart attack xD
I put my Fedora on my head.
Aaah i’m afraid
whew ! april
u just gave me a heart attack 😐
<<---victim~f*ckin prank! haha....
#FossBytes.. U scare me…..:-/
Great prank, you’ve almost got me panick, without Ubuntu i dont think what im gonna do,!
Today isn’t April fools
Seriously!!!! Can’t imagine i fell for this
Best april fool. 😉
damn i was so mad. you really got me
That would be the worst nightmare to , I’m ubuntu fans ….
you got me jjjjj
Shaaight you got me good guys! Nice one.
it’s still only March 31st here, yall motherfuckers need to chill out
holy christ, well played 😀
But Windows “Hell” has existed for years… I don’t get it… hahaha
Please don’t do this again yaar.
you can fool on april first only, but corporate keep on trying to buy this one day, to make us fool forever
i put debian onnmy head…. scary.
I was tensed. ;-;
man that was scary. You realy got me…..
Hey but I like the Idea Windows L. If it is happend its a pleasure for all Programmers.
Sock, ha ha!
1-4 lol
I was thinking WTF is going on. Nice joke.
April Fools :))
Microsoft should play the game carefully so that on the same day a situation doesnt come where they have to forego Ubuntu
This is one of the evilest prank I’ve encountered so far.
The Foolist news.
almost died there
Woo April fool
Are you serious….I almost f-ing died
You asshole…. your damm right about the damm heart attack, you scared me half to death…
You [email protected]#$%^&* >:( I got a mini heart attack here.
Ohhhhhhh, My heart beat 🙁
I have a few choice words for you that aren’t even acceptable in international waters!!!
damn. i was gonna going crazy and mad at microsoft evil action
I went from Happy to super angry in an instant
get a separate faking news category for such scary pranks.some people may die of heart attack if they hear such a news.
My soul was ready to crawl out of my skin.. This hit me so hard >_< hahaha. We need these jokes once in a while.
Oh, you guys got me!!! Hahaha! It gave me quite a scare, because it was so believable.
Geese guys for a second there I really believed it nice one 🙂
Considering all the crap minrtosoft is doing with Windows 10, I thought you were serious for a few seconds lol
There it is!
Yeat, another bad aprils fool about Microsoft doing something really bad towards Linux/FOSS. Where a portion of the community, mature as eight years olds or have lived behind a rock for 10 years shitting their pants. Please can the grown up part of the community help or are you gyus also afraid?
Shit, you scared the hell out of me guys!
i hope windows will come with open source code
You guys rock I just got sooooo many ppl with this !
I almost believed this. Although I don’t think it’s far from what Win would want. They are evi like that!
it is said that political jokes have a habit of getting elected.
far-fetched tech jokes have a habit of being made to happen.
don’t dismiss this scenario too quickly.
A friend bought it, I had to read to make sure it is an APD joke 🙂
Still it will take some time for me to recover from shock
First I thought wtf. Then I remembered there will remain bunch of other good distros like Arch. And just before it was told I realized it was April Fools
You are heartless hahahahaha. Today is the 2nd so I was not expecting it, my heart sank when I read the article hahahahaha
Hello I read an article and it seems you are foolish. We don’t expect any air to rumours in article. In actual you are hurting your job. Your any future article will be extremely doubtful to readers. Don’t make fun of your professions.
I thought I was gonna have a heart atack..
I am not an avant linux user. which hope i can put on a G4. but that was a nice one.I was getting pissed of I know microst have a habbit of buying software companies and killing it.
You nearly killed my husband – I read it to him and he firstly thought it was an April Fools joke, then he began to believe it and nearly died – until I showed him the April Fool message, (thanks guys, best joke I’ve played on him yet)!
I read, and I could not believe, I was in shock,
actually at first I did not see the picture but then I checked what day it was written and realized the idea, Only after that I saw the picture,still I am in shock and wonder – What if it was really happens What i will do then ?
I’m probably going to use a different operating system of Linux,
this night, i am sure, i will not going to fall asleep
they would not go anywhere no community user would use a windows linux OS I would move to MINT or ARCH immediately. MS is doomed they failed in the mobile phone biz …
Hope this only remains a JOKE and not a reality… Its a nightmare!!!! If MS wants it will be great to see it’s own edition of Linux or rather a derivitive of Ubuntu… Winbuntu?
damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
my intestines were even shaking
from now on i myt start looking through an article to the bottom before i read
damn you gys are gud
OMFG just found out now i was like fu** why isn’t ubuntus wesite shutted down and now i just got so happy beacuse i love linux.