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๐ŸชŸ Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable (gamesbymason.com)
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[โ€“] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Maybe. If they do it's going to represent a pretty dramatic shift away from backwards compatibility, which has always been the biggest defining characteristic of Windows. Probably not for Enterprise, but maybe for Personal?

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    They would keep backup compatibility using wine. Well, at least sort of.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that's fine for handling some stuff, but there are some very old applications still in use that were coded by a programmer who died twenty years ago who counted on Windows bugs. A lot of companies refuse to spend the money to upgrade or replace those systems, and so Microsoft has maintained compatibility for them ever since. Wine hasn't reached full parity for those bugs, at least so far.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The key word being so far. A company like Microsoft would be able to ramp up wine development substantially, if they decided to. If I'm not mistaken, these very old legacy 16 and 32 bit apps have to be run on emulators running old versions of windows anyways - in these cases the OS running the emulator doesn't matter anyways.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    True! If they committed back to the Linux kernel and the Wine project, this would be a huge boon. And it might happen someday, I guess; they've contributed to other FOSS projects. They've also built the WSL which is just one transposition away from a LSW, so who knows.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    LSW?

    LSW Laboratory Safety Workshop
    LSW Lamberg Sleep Well
    LSW Land and Sea Warfare
    LSW Lasik Surgery Watch
    LSW Last Seen Wearing
    LSW Least Significant Word
    LSW Leeds Sculpture Workshop
    LSW Left-Sided Weakness LSW Legendary Super Warriors
    LSW Lego Star Wars
    LSW Licensed Social Worker
    LSW Light Ship Weight
    LSW Light Support Weapon
    LSW Lincoln Southwest
    LSW London Standard Wording
    LSW Long Suffering Wife
    LSW Loudoun Symphonic Winds
    LSW Lucas-Sargent-Wallace proposition

    https://www.abbreviationfinder.org/acronyms/lsw.html

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago

    Heh, sorry. "WSL" is the "Windows Subsystem for Linux," which (in the opposite of the way it sounds like it should work) runs Linux on Windows, pretty close to baremetal. So the "LSW" would be the "Linux Subsystem for Windows," so to speak; a hypothetical way to run Windows on a Linux machine.

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