Microsoft now has a guide on how to install Linux... you read that right

[Windows Central]

Microsoft has a ton of guides and tutorials under its sleeves that provide users with insightful information, highlighting how software work and more. While most of these tutorials are centred around the Microsoft ecosystem, the company surprisingly published a new tutorial on "how to download and install Linux."

Microsoft now has a guide on how to install Linux... you read that right : Read more

 

[naddy69]

To me, this is yet more evidence that Microsoft realizes that Unix (Linux) is the future. Let's face it. All other computers on the planet now run some version of Unix.

MacOS is Unix. iOS/iPadOS is Unix. Android is Linux. The internet runs on Linux. Unix runs on everything from IBM mainframes to Apple Watches. Even MS Azure is 80% Linux.

Why? Because Unix is modular, portable and scalable. Windows is none of these.

Microsoft is the last remaining company with an OS not based on Unix. I've said this before, but it is worth repeating. At some point, Windows HAS to become based on Linux. Windows 14/Windows 13/Whatever. Win32 and WOW64 MUST be ported to Linux.

Microsoft already had a version of Unix. It was called Xenix and was VERY popular in the mid 1980s. But it is probably way too outdated at this point to bring it back from the dead.