Google has the advantage of having two consumer platform (Android and ChromeOS) running on Linux, but with the majority of application code written on top of ad

Google has the advantage of having two consumer platform (Android and ChromeOS) running on Linux, but with the majority of application code written on top of additional abstractions on top of Linux so a lot of it would still run if the appropriate runtimes were ported over to Fuchsia. Google is also developing Fuchsia openly, if quietly, giving developers a preview of where they are going. Microsoft developed Midori mostly in secret, and while we've heard a little bit about what they did in that project from blog posts and Twitter threads, nothing official has ever been released publicly. And on the server side, virtualization and containerization are huge and growing, as many people find the benefits in flexibility, repeatability of deployment, and incremental billing to outweigh the absolute overhead over bare-metal performance. Fuchsia seems to support virtualization as a core part of the API, allowing you to run Linux VMs when you need to, and it could be possible to port containerized applications piecemeal to Fuchsia with some components still running on Linux on co-located or even the same hardware. I feel like this is one of the benefits of the relatively simpler POSIX style API design, and extensive use of sockets for IPC, over the fairly complex, heaviweight Win32 API and NT kernel. I feel like a lot more software that runs on Linux (and is generally portable to several other POSIX-ish OS's) would be a lot easier to port to Fuchsia, and in an incremental way, than all of the software that runs on Windows systems would be to port to Midori.