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OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft (www.businessinsider.com)
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[โ€“] ikidd@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

WSL is EEE in a nutshell. I don't know why that is held out as an example of how Microsoft has changed.

[โ€“] Patch 8 points 11 months ago

It's just fancy virtualization. It's not really wildly different from KVM/QEMU going the other way.

It's hard to get too excited about it. It's not going to replace real Linux builds, which dominate the server space in a way which is never going to be meaningfully challenged by "Linux in a VM under Windows".

Windows implementing WSL is their concession that they've lost the server market and they aren't getting it back, and if they don't want to lose the workstation market as well they need to make sure that Linux development can happen easily on Windows boxes. Their business case for it is clear, and it's really not got anything to do with classic EEE tactics.