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Microsoft has always been about making devs happy so they will sell software to users. If devs are happy with Linux, WSL will make it easier for them to sell th
by mimixco 6y ago
Microsoft has always been about making devs happy so they will sell software to users. If devs are happy with Linux, WSL will make it easier for them to sell those apps to Windows users. The community of people who develop software is small compared to the audience that runs software, and those people are mostly on Windows. MS is doing this to keep devs happy and keep them shipping apps for Windows, even if the devs live entirely in Linux land.
- wvenable 6y agoMicrosoft wants to sell Cloud to developers. More than 50% of servers on Azure are Linux. It's that simple. Obviously developing for Linux in WSL does nothing to keep developers shipping apps for Windows.