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Re:Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, i... by acd on Saturday October 20, 2018 @03:53PM (#18265082)
Future prediction.

Windows is no longer Microsofts core product, Microsofts cloud offering are its main revenue base. As a side effect Microsoft decides to open source the Windows code base. Microsoft is already the largest contributor of open source on Github.

Windows becomes a application compatibility layer in Linux and are also ported to Mac OS X. You can now run Windows apps on Linux and Mac OS X including games without the update issue.

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Re:Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, i... by EpicBlackCrayon on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:44PM (#18266060)
I'm not sure why I keep seeing this repeated around the net, but that isn't the case. They're working on a rewrite of Windows that is based around UWP called CoreOS.

https://www.windowscentral.com/understanding-windows-core-os...

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Re:Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, i... by thezultimate on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:36PM (#18265295)
Or maybe they will think that the Linux subsystem is very good that they adopt it as the "main" system. Then Windows becomes Microsoft's official Linux distro.
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