News Microsoft makes the Windows Subsystem for Linux open source after almost a decade of development

[Admin]

Now we can all develop new features for WSL

Microsoft makes the Windows Subsystem for Linux open source after almost a decade of development : Read more

 

[Krieger-San]

It makes me wonder... they've been working on WSL for years, but also the 'enshitification' of Windows has massively increased over that time as well.

Is Microsoft headed towards a future as a non-operating system developer?

I already virutalize all my Windows loads, preferring Linux hosts over WinServer Core boxes. I feel a lot of the industry has done the same.

 

[Konomi]

It makes me wonder... they've been working on WSL for years, but also the 'enshitification' of Windows has massively increased over that time as well.

Is Microsoft headed towards a future as a non-operating system developer?

I already virutalize all my Windows loads, preferring Linux hosts over WinServer Core boxes. I feel a lot of the industry has done the same.

Most likely. Push the development/QA process on random folk who'll do it for free, ensure they can push as many ads and gather as much user data as possible, sell for a profit. Given the recent layoffs, I can only see an unfortunate trend downwards for Microsoft..