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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by EdSharkey on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:44PM (#11392846)
I'm not ruling EEE out, but this move feels more like "staunch the bleeding" to capture more developers and retain the ones they have. I'd love to read a leaked Powerpoint or memo that explains the long-term strategy here.

I think this is a great move by Microsoft to be able to EXEC a competitor's binary files natively. But, I think it risks being an admission that Win32/64 syscalls and Windows file system semantics are a crufty boat anchor holding developers back. To admit that risks inviting more developers to bail on Windows.

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by CamperBob2 on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:05PM (#11392997)
I'd love to read a leaked Powerpoint or memo that explains the long-term strategy here.

If MS's marketing department has half a brain at all, they will accidentally leak such a memo fairly soon.

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