> Yeah, the fact that they didn't show off Windows, but instead Debian of all things, was very telling.

I suspect developers running VMs with Linux on them is far more common than developers running Windows VMs. Likely by an order of magnitude. Web developers want Linux VMs, Windows developer have Windows laptops.

You'd be surprised. It was the only option for those writing native apps to have a platform that could legally run all of your tooling if you shipped Mac/Windows/Linux.

> It was the only option for those writing native apps to have a platform that could legally run all of your tooling if you shipped Mac/Windows/Linux.

Sure, but the number of people writing cross platform apps is a small fraction of the number of web developers out there.

But given the amount of time they talked about how large a part native apps play into the transitions, an extremely strategically important segment for them.

Additionally, there's the Android/iOS crowd in the same boat, where emulation of non x86 in Android dev is pretty limited (but I can see that being rectified with the newer virtualization extensions).

MacOS Subsystem for Linux

And strange - Windows already runs on ARM doesn’t it?

I don't think there's a way to have a licensed Windows ARM copy right now on arbitrary hardware. I thought they only provided OEM versions on certified hardware.