[Info-vax] report of the last "rendez-vous autour de VMS" (2-FEB-2024)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:03:49 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 4/20/2024 6:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:17:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> No. [WSL] is for developers.
>> 
>> It may be now, but how long do you think it will stay that way? It
>> seems very likely that, at some point, WSL will become a mandatory part
>> of a Windows install.
> 
> Not likely.

Think of how difficult and expensive it is for Microsoft to continue 
developing Windows as a stand-alone OS. Clearly the profit isn’t there any 
more, as witness the deteriorating quality of Windows releases, and even 
the quality of the patches to fix up the problems, which often end up 
causing their own problems.

It would be following the path of least resistance to rely more and more 
on the Linux kernel, and let the Windows kernel itself gradually wither 
away.