Linux provides several very pleasant desktop options. If you want ms apps however you nay prefer an ms desktop.
That's by the by, however. I suspect this will be a hotmail type job. Bring the function in-house as *nix to get into the market and then port to windows.
It would certainly be helpful if switches authenticated users against AD without all this x509 malarky, hmm?
The Linux component either will not remain or it will remain because ms wants to ship windows-specific extensions to Linux sw switch vendors. FLOSS is there because people cooperate to solve a problem and share the costs and benefits. MS has no ifinancial nterest in sharing benefits with others, which is why I'm wary of even stuff they might provide under the gpl. It's fine to use, but don't expect it to continue without you paying in some way or other.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
