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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
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:15PM
disabled Siri, iCloud, error reporting
um.... yeah these so called features and their alikes on other systems are the trojan horses. this is how your information is getting to the NSA, et. al. automatic updates is how they open and close backdoors in your system. this stuff is obvious to anybody who has been using computers since before the shit soup that passes for an operating system these days
can we have a a bug duh for the dunces
thanks