At least it's short. Speaking as someone who used to be an "IBM VisualAge for C++ for OS/2" user. (s/developer/user/ edit for clarity) I don't really think it'

At least it's short. Speaking as someone who used to be an "IBM VisualAge for C++ for OS/2" user. (s/developer/user/ edit for clarity) I don't really think it's doublespeak as such, just the weird corporate perspective. They built a subsystem that supports Linux so "Windows subsystem for Linux" makes logical sense at least. I think with that (twisted) perspective "Linux for Windows" would imply a version of Linux that was for running Windows applications. I wholeheartedly agree that "Linux for Windows" would be a better name for WSL, but I can see their point of view if I squint enough. Also, at least this new subsystem is consistently named; if you know what WSL is it's obvious what this is.