This definitely lowers the barrier to entry, thought I have little faith in how Microsoft will present it. Been burned too many times by them on poor UX/DX (WSL, F#)
I’d love to compare those side by side to make a judgement of which looks more janky.
I’m excited to see that Apple is unifying their hardware architectures across their various form factors of computing devices.
That’ll be interesting in the future.
So xbox, (phones?), tablets, laptops, desktops, servers ran the same Windows essentially with different shells.
Windows also supports multiple hardware architectures - we just need the external ecosystem to thrive as well. We see it in graphics with nvidia and amd but compute/cpu progress limped through most of 2012-2018?.
Windows for ARM is still in preview, I believe.
You can already run Linux on Windows. Now you can run Android. No need to mess around with Archon, Nox, Genymotion anymore. Got a weather app you like? An audiobook player? Done.
Hopefully this means more interoperability with Microsoft’s own Android apps, so buying a phone like the Surface Duo and using the Your Phone feature actually does something.