[EvanAnderson]

> ... Or better yet, just switch everything to full POSIX.

Interix[0] did a pretty good job of this, but MSFT killed it. I was compiling GNU tools w/ GCC and running bash under Interix back in in 2000 under Windows 2000. It was grand.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix

[dekhn]

I ported a million-line, OpenGL/Motif application using Interix (before it was acquired). Indeed, it was grand.

[pjmlp]

The experience with Windows Services for UNIX wasn't that great, so yet another good product killed via acquisitions?

I only know it post acquisition.