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Re:ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 softw... by drdaeman on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:31AM (#16849224)
> (or even desktop Linux) has a higher installed base and they don’t bother Microsoft significantly.

Except for they did. I'm pretty sure WSL was about developers who had preferred GNU/Linux-based systems (or macOS, since it can be compatible for some cases) for work, not about just running some *nix server software on Windows machines.

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Re:ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 softw... by __sr__ on Monday April 16, 2018 @01:39PM (#16850984)
I said “significantly” — macOS and Linux have existed for ages, yet Microsoft is starting with WSL just now. Also, as far as I know, WSL is a by-product of the Poject Astoria - not something Microsoft set out to do. They probably thought, “We’ve done most of the work anyway, might as well get something out of it.”
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