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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by evv on Friday February 01, 2019 @01:58PM (#19057258)
It would be make me so happy to see WINE supported as the first-class way of running Windows software.
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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by devereaux on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:42PM (#19058368)
I would fully expect them to buy Codeweavers should they do that.

Win32 binaries running on Wine is one of the best option for desktop software.

It's funny how it is like the polar opposite of UWP, but it just work and I guess that matters more than technical beauty.

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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by cptskippy on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:05PM (#19057345)
I would be surprised if that was the approach Microsoft took, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a supported way of running Windows Apps emerge.

This could be used as a way to maintain backward compatibility in Windows as it evolves in the future.

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Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella by acct1771 on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:56PM (#19060218)
Valve (Steam) are doing this.
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