Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.
it would be pretty interesting if Microsoft made the next version of Windows a Linux distro with a Windows emulation layer
I think it’d be a full screen ai client app running on linux, probably on cage. why bother with the nt and win32 and whatever middlewares. linux is externally maintained. saved dev money can be used for power/ram bills instead.
With Edge running on top to render all user interface elements.
Well, if they let AI write all the software I bet it will be. I’m sure it’s been trained on the Linux source code.
Or throw their support behind certain distros with said emulation layers, maybe even a desktop environment like Plasma with a “Microsoft theme”.
Honestly I think it is a great idea either way.
Regardless of their commercial goals, if they put their weight into supporting the Linux ecosystem we’d undoubtedly benefit as a whole. For instance from common upstream bug fixes and increased user adoption of Linux by their remaining loyalist customers.
That would never happen. The entire reason why Windows is not as power efficient as MacOS or some Linux distros is the backwards compatibility that it brings. People laugh at the fact that you can still find icons and .dlls from Windows 95 (or, probably, even 3), but that’s exactly one of the reasons why this OS is so massively popular, especially for enterprise users.
I’m sorry but this is just not true. The legacy support within Linux is insane and it’s one of the hallmarks of the operating system.