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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @01:31AM
The end game is to let Microsoft users have the benefits of Unix software but not letting Unix have the benefit of Microsoft software.. or just about anything. I can see the next wave open source programs..
This appears to be an attempt at the old Microsoft strategy: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
I hope Linux is robust enough to survive this relatively unscathed. Meanwhile, I think I'm going to be using Mint and Debian as my distros of choice. I can't say I'm entirely comfortable using any of the listed distros any longer, especially considering Ubuntu tried to stick its toe in the telemetry pool before.