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by Aerroon 81 days ago
Windows 14 will just be a linux distro with wine acting as backwards compatibility.
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pjmlp 80 days ago
Why would Microsoft ever do that?

WSL is already there for the folks that want to play with Linux.

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Aerroon 80 days ago
For a while it seemed like Microsoft wasn't taking Windows seriously as a product. And the easiest way to cut costs on that is to use a solution someone else is building and maintaining. They did retire Internet Explorer in favor of a Chromium browser, so it wouldn't be unprecedented.
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pjmlp 79 days ago
Edge has lots of features on top of Chromium.
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voodooEntity 81 days ago
Inb4 Windows 40k and to run the "kernel" you need to sacrifice 1000 a day
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beAbU 80 days ago
By the time we get to version 40k the kernel will just be AI hallucinating a UI for you at 60fps.

Secondly, I do acknowlege your 40k reference.

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