Ubuntu Linux base to be integrated in Windows?

[barbaz]

http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... indows-10/

Interesting...

EDIT This link, noted at mozillaZine, is much informative on this topic: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ ... ndows.html

[therube]

will be in the eating

... our words.

That said, I don't quite understand what they're saying.
Much less any reasoning for MS to (now) include UNIX-like (with UNIX-like names & operation ?) in Windows. Makes no sense to me.

(UNIX is certainly not unknown to MS, then do [or did] own licenses of it, Xenix , [Altos] which I grew up on. [Micosoft Multiplan, which I use to this day {& I'm probably the last person on earth to do so }, I first ran on Xenix, now on Windows.] And why they didn't do something like this ages ago, instead of reinventing the wheel, giving it a different name, different syntax, & all the while leaving it[s shell & utilities] inferior to a UNIX counterpart, I'll never know?)

[barbaz]

Probably trying to attract power users who don't care about the privacy issues. I mean, they wouldn't be tracking users in the first place if they couldn't make money off that, would they?

Well, at least that's what Grumpus @ mozillaZine seems to be thinking.

[Thrawn]

I initially assumed, from the topic title, that this was an April Fool. It's a bit early, though...

Technologically it makes sense; as Dustin Kirkland mentioned, it's the opposite of Wine, providing Win32 implementations of POSIX APIs.