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I think Microsoft's move to add bash on Windows was very well calculated. They have an OS that runs on a huge number of devices giving buyers options, with main

I think Microsoft's move to add bash on Windows was very well calculated. They have an OS that runs on a huge number of devices giving buyers options, with mainstream driver support, compatibility with most commercial software, and good development tools for the platform. By adding bash gives OSX users who are dissatisfied with the latest Apple hardware a chance to jump ship. At the same time Windows/Linux dual-boot users who also happen to be gamers will find themselves using Linux less.

pjmlp 10y ago
The thing is that this backslash is mainly driven by the vocal UNIX developers that migrated to Apple hardware due to the underlying UNIX. However for those of us that actually care about macOS software written in Objective-C and Swift, macOS is as good as always.
Yetanfou 10y ago
Sooo.... if Microsoft really wants to be 'smart'... they sort-of allow someone to develop a 'Mac OS' subsystem to run on Windows. They can not do this officially as they'd have layers of lawyers upon them in an instant but since they have extensive experience with subversive operations it should be possible to get the thing running in a rather short time. Maybe they should have a chat with the GNUStep folks to see if they have some converging targets. Having a Mac OS compatibility layer on other systems would enable gradual migration, not something Apple will be wildly enthusiastic about but - if implemented correctly - not something they can do much about either apart from restricting access to Apple-created software to Apple-created hardware and operating environments (something they already do as far as I know).
- kyriakos 10y ago
  I don't see the reason for this. OSX (or Windows) at this time are not something special, dev tools except the platform specific stuff are cross platform. Creative software exists for both (more on Windows actually). What would a compatibility layer with OSX on Windows offer that you can't already do other than ios app packaging and deployment (cause even that you can already develop on other platforms if you don't use the official tools). So even if technically is doable it's really not worth the legal backfire.
  - pritambaral 10y ago
    I think it would be smarter to build an official Windows compatibility layer for other OSes and sell that. Imagine, MS Wine™. Of course, the engineering required behind something like that may or may not be too hard even for Microsoft.

pjmlp 10y ago

The thing is that this backslash is mainly driven by the vocal UNIX developers that migrated to Apple hardware due to the underlying UNIX. However for those of us that actually care about macOS software written in Objective-C and Swift, macOS is as good as always.

Yetanfou 10y ago

Sooo.... if Microsoft really wants to be 'smart'... they sort-of allow someone to develop a 'Mac OS' subsystem to run on Windows. They can not do this officially as they'd have layers of lawyers upon them in an instant but since they have extensive experience with subversive operations it should be possible to get the thing running in a rather short time. Maybe they should have a chat with the GNUStep folks to see if they have some converging targets. Having a Mac OS compatibility layer on other systems would enable gradual migration, not something Apple will be wildly enthusiastic about but - if implemented correctly - not something they can do much about either apart from restricting access to Apple-created software to Apple-created hardware and operating environments (something they already do as far as I know).

kyriakos 10y ago
I don't see the reason for this. OSX (or Windows) at this time are not something special, dev tools except the platform specific stuff are cross platform. Creative software exists for both (more on Windows actually). What would a compatibility layer with OSX on Windows offer that you can't already do other than ios app packaging and deployment (cause even that you can already develop on other platforms if you don't use the official tools). So even if technically is doable it's really not worth the legal backfire.
- pritambaral 10y ago
  I think it would be smarter to build an official Windows compatibility layer for other OSes and sell that. Imagine, MS Wine™. Of course, the engineering required behind something like that may or may not be too hard even for Microsoft.