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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 14 2017, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the sounds-reasonable dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Microsoft just announced that three different versions of the free Linux operating system — Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora — are coming to the Windows Store, the app market in Windows 10

It sounds weird, but it makes perfect sense. In early 2016, Microsoft announced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a way for developers to use full versions of Linux within Windows 10 itself.

Putting aside the historical ramifications here — Microsoft spent the 90s unsuccessfully trying to stamp out Linux, a free alternative to Windows — it was a move intended to bait programmers into using Windows 10.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-store-gets-ubuntu-suse-fedora-linux-2017-5


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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:33PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday May 14 2017, @08:33PM (#509603) Journal

    There are so many alarm bells ringing already, that may be why.

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