[ishtu]

user space version of the NT kernel (known as NTUM - "user mode NT")

This is pretty neat. Wonder if people could use it to run other Windows stuff on Linux

Edit: formatting

[mistaken]

That's like an official implementation of WINE from Microsoft.

[my123]

It's much more complete than Wine, it actually has the whole Windows graphics stack running, outputting over RDP ;)

[ryandvm]

Interesting. It seems to be based on Microsoft's "Drawbridge" research project:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/

I wonder if there's any chance they'd allow this mechanism to be used by 3rd parties to port their Windows services to run on non-Windows platforms. I doubt it...

[wolf550e]

I wonder if the license for that only allows running specific applications.

[my123]

The PAL runner is actually locked down to run SQL Server only ;-) Trying to run another app, even reg or cmd, currently makes AppLoader crash. (AppLoader is the first .exe that is ran in the NTUM)