That’s definitely not going to happen. One of the few things Windows is doing right is backwards compatibility. Have 30 year old exe? It usually just runs fine. In my experience a lot of business logic relies on this compatibility. It would be stupid from a business standpoint to break this compatibility. It would upset a lot of paying customers.
But wait a second. I’m speaking about Microsoft. All we wanted was a Windows 7 with a modernized GUI. And we got Windows 10 with Cortana, multiple Control panels, redundant settings that contradicted each other. We got Windows 11 with ads everywhere, Copilot, enforced MS accounts and so on.
It would perfectly make sense to switch to Linux. They could fire a lot of devs. I’m sure they would save a lot of money for a couple of seconds.
Obviously they don’t give a shit about customers, so this sounds like a normal thing Microsoft could do for short term gains.
Oddly, Windows can natively handle .tar.gz now. Found that out the other day.
Probably part of that Windows Subsystem for Linux
At what point is windows just gonna become Linux with a proprietary frontend.
That idea has been thrown around A LOT.
I don’t think it’ll ever happen tbh
That’s definitely not going to happen. One of the few things Windows is doing right is backwards compatibility. Have 30 year old exe? It usually just runs fine. In my experience a lot of business logic relies on this compatibility. It would be stupid from a business standpoint to break this compatibility. It would upset a lot of paying customers.
But wait a second. I’m speaking about Microsoft. All we wanted was a Windows 7 with a modernized GUI. And we got Windows 10 with Cortana, multiple Control panels, redundant settings that contradicted each other. We got Windows 11 with ads everywhere, Copilot, enforced MS accounts and so on.
It would perfectly make sense to switch to Linux. They could fire a lot of devs. I’m sure they would save a lot of money for a couple of seconds.
Obviously they don’t give a shit about customers, so this sounds like a normal thing Microsoft could do for short term gains.
What? No, keep it the same but keep on supplying security patches. The whole “modernized GUI” was what gave us the wonderful new GUI of Windows 8!
MS: you mean we can fire 95% of the windows devs, and nerds on the internet will just do the work for us?
MS: we love Linux now!
E: stonks 📈
They’d lose their moat overnight, not gonna happen
No, they just include libarchive in Windows
It also came with tar preinstalled in cmd for a while before supporting it in their GUI.
Yeah, but it’s a two step process. You first unpack the gz, than unpack the tar