Thus reinforcing development tools that target Windows desktop even further, the OS/2 lesson repeats itself.

And failing everything else, Microsoft is in the position to put WSL center and front, and yet again, that is the laptops that normies will buy.

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dleslie 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Not to worry, Microsoft can't escape Win32 either. They've tried, with UWP and others, but they're locked in to supporting the ABI.

It's not a moving target. Proton and Wine have shown it can be achieved with greater comparability than even what Microsoft offers.

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pjmlp 18 hours ago | parent [-]

While true, people should pay attention that WinRT, the technology infrastructure for UWP, nowadays lives in Win32 and is what is powering anything CoPilot+ PC, Windows ML, the Windows Terminal rewrite, new Explorer extensions, updated context menu on Windows 11,....

It is a moving target, Proton is mostly stuck on Windows XP world, before most new APIs started being a mix of COM and WinRT.

Even if that isn't the case, almost no company would bother with GNU/Linux to develop with Win32, instead of Windows, Visual Studio, business as usual.

	▲	dleslie 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		FWIW, Wine 8.0 introduced some WinRT support, specifically Windows.Gaming.Input. It's a start.