Re: EU not content
Yep, I totally second that observation. In another decade Windows will be a compatibility layer running on top of Linux, much like Wine is/used to be.
Well, knowing Microsoft, I'd expect *BSD rather than Linux, but same conceptual design. I've thought MS missed a good opportunity when the ReWind project forked off of Wine (and died soon afterwards). Since ReWind had stayed with the X11 licence that Wine was moving away from, MS could have picked it up to become a compatibility layer for MSWindows. These days it would be handy for them to have a Wine-type runtime to handle many of the legacy APIs they's like to remove from the core OS. Then the core could get cleaned up, making the system faster and more stable.
Of course, this would have risked some useful code making it's way into the Wine project (and probably ReactOS as well), and MS couldn't have that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
