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> This assumes that Microsofts future IS windows. > I don't believe that has been the case since Satya. Indeed. When MS has several multi-billion dollar stre

> This assumes that Microsofts future IS windows. > I don't believe that has been the case since Satya. Indeed. When MS has several multi-billion dollar streams of revenue - Office, Azure, XBox, game labels, and so on, and the "cloudy" part of computing is almost exclusively Linux, there's less compelling reasons for them to invest in Windows. With other moves like WSL, 'winget' and 'sudo', it's clear Windows is slowly moving towards a facade that mimics Linux from the CLI. In 2000, MS was Windows 9x, 2000, and Office. Consider that in 2004, you'd go to a site and download a Windows-only piece of software, and in 2024, you'll now find Apple-only software, or Linux only. Arguably, the 'year of the Linux(-like) desktop' has been MacOS for well over a decade. It's a gateway drug to full Linux, with very little friction in comparison to Windows (filesystem paths, Win32 api, etc.).

donmcronald 2y ago
> 'winget' IMO the main purpose for WinGet was to kill AppGet because MS doesn't want a 3rd party to control the package repository for an easy to use distribution system. As far as I can tell, custom WinGet repos need to be run on Azure, so MS basically has a stranglehold on distribution. If you publish anything they don't like they can label you as being malicious and ban your Azure account. Regardless, the friction to running your own repo is high and most people will capitulate and submit their apps to the official repo for approval (by MS). Big tech has been relentlessly locking down software distribution for the last decade and killing everything but the Windows Store, WinGet, etc. has to be a long term goal for MS.