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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @02:16AM
Why the hell isn't this ringing massive alarm bells with this site's entire audience?!
It seems to me like it is. I haven't seen a single positive comment, only "EEE", telemetry, what-could-go-wrong, etc.
Looks like I may need to go to BSD soon...
At least "Windows Subsystem for BSD" is unlikely to happen, since it looks too much like "Windows Subsystem for BSoD", aka Windows 95 :)