[vanilla_nut]

I very nearly want them to double down on this disastrous strategy so in 3-5 years we’ll all be saved from Windows by an MS-run Linux distro (with windows theming, naturally) that just runs Wine+some MS internal goodies for backwards compat. It’s really not that different from Apple’s approach with Rosetta 2 in M1.

[philistine]

It’s crazy that this now aligns with Microsoft’s goals and could conceivably happen.

Microsoft has the capacity to realize that the value of Windows is not the codebase, but the compatibility. They could let the Linux subsystem swallow Windows and wrap Windows itself inside it.

However, I believe we’ll continue to see their colocation system instead, where Windows and Linux are both wrapped inside a system managing both.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

... Windows subsystem for Windows? (Although I guess maybe wow64 was that already)

[mmerlin]

Internet Explorer became Chromium under the hood (MS Edge)

Windows might be fully Linux under the hood one day!

WSL2 is one of the early bridges across the divide.

[plushpuffin]

What you described is actually closer to Apple's strategy for moving from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, with a virtual machine for running classic apps on the new OS.

[emptyparadise]

Microsoft-made Linux distribution finally making Linux on the desktop happen, did somebody wish for it on a monkey paw?