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When WSL was announced, I joked that Windows might move to the Linux kernel someday. I might have been right.
by theandrewbailey 3y ago
When WSL was announced, I joked that Windows might move to the Linux kernel someday. I might have been right.
- mikece 3y agoWired wrote about Windows being based on the Linux kernel and being called "Winx" all the way back in 2005. If you've never read "The Microsoft Memo" featuring disgruntled Microsoft employee Linus Torvalds complaining about Steve Ballmer to Bill Gates it's hilarious right up the point that you start to wonder if the current leadership of MSFT found this article and said "Hey... this is a GREAT idea!"... https://www.wired.com/2005/02/microsoft-5/ https://www.wired.com/2005/02/microsoft-5/