[wizzledonker]

I fail to see the purpose of this.

Call me harsh, but I think this is one of those things that is fun to create but not very useful. Possibly that's the reason it was made.

The reasoning has everything to do with confusion. This will be a de-facto leaky abstraction of an experience. Many windows programs will not work and require debugging. It isn't clear to the user that this is actually Ubuntu, so the system ultimately becomes less usable when something (inevitably) goes wrong as you are now dealing with nuances of two different systems at once.

I can only see this being useful in situations where a user has learned the 'bare minimum' of windows functionality and needs to be presented with a similar UI ('fooled') to be able to function in the OS at a basic level.

EDIT: And they offer a paid version that 500s? This is starting to read like very suspicious software...

[smitty1e]

I predict the end state of Windows is a user experience like Aqua is on Darwin for Apple.

That is, Wubuntu = Darwin.

If Redmond can't beat Torvalds, and the cost of kernel development continues to get less affordable when Office365, ActiveDirectory and Exchange are where the money is, then why bother?