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I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is mo

I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.

snerbles 10y ago
> And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Ubuntu userland, with no Linux kernel. It could be more appropriately named GNU/Windows, amusingly enough.
- pritambaral 10y ago
  They didn't build an Ubuntu userland. They did build a subsystem that pretends to be Linux (the kernel) and takes and processes Linux syscalls. It's just that Ubuntu itself runs on Linux, so they can run Ubuntu on this subsystem. Nothing technical stopping other userspaces to be run on it. So it is quite appropriately named "Windows Subsystem for Linux". What you are talking about may be called "Ubuntu on Windows", "Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux", or "Ubuntu on WSL". (pardon the long names, not my choice. Bad/long naming is an old Microsoft trope.)
jneal 10y ago
Definitely agree. It's not very surprising at this day and age, but if you told me this would happen 10 years ago I would have laughed and discounted the idea completely.
LyalinDotCom 10y ago
We're really committed to doing our best on being good members of the global developer community, just watch Connect(); // 2016 where this was announced and is streaming live right now. We've got a few more announcements coming :). https://connectevent.microsoft.com https://connectevent.microsoft.com
- blackaspen 10y ago
  Awesome! Way back when, I was a huge Microsoft fanboy, until Mac OS X came out, then I hated Microsoft...then I used a Windows Phone from day one until just before Microsoft bought Nokia. And I own a Surface. Definitely come full circle.
pritambaral 10y ago
> Azure runs on Linux Are you sure? I thought I'd read Azure runs on Windows's HyperV. Or perhaps you meant "Azure runs Linux".

snerbles 10y ago

> And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Ubuntu userland, with no Linux kernel. It could be more appropriately named GNU/Windows, amusingly enough.

pritambaral 10y ago
They didn't build an Ubuntu userland. They did build a subsystem that pretends to be Linux (the kernel) and takes and processes Linux syscalls. It's just that Ubuntu itself runs on Linux, so they can run Ubuntu on this subsystem. Nothing technical stopping other userspaces to be run on it. So it is quite appropriately named "Windows Subsystem for Linux". What you are talking about may be called "Ubuntu on Windows", "Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux", or "Ubuntu on WSL". (pardon the long names, not my choice. Bad/long naming is an old Microsoft trope.)

jneal 10y ago

Definitely agree. It's not very surprising at this day and age, but if you told me this would happen 10 years ago I would have laughed and discounted the idea completely.

LyalinDotCom 10y ago

We're really committed to doing our best on being good members of the global developer community, just watch Connect(); // 2016 where this was announced and is streaming live right now. We've got a few more announcements coming :). https://connectevent.microsoft.com https://connectevent.microsoft.com

blackaspen 10y ago
Awesome! Way back when, I was a huge Microsoft fanboy, until Mac OS X came out, then I hated Microsoft...then I used a Windows Phone from day one until just before Microsoft bought Nokia. And I own a Surface. Definitely come full circle.

pritambaral 10y ago

> Azure runs on Linux Are you sure? I thought I'd read Azure runs on Windows's HyperV. Or perhaps you meant "Azure runs Linux".