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I have a theory for some time now, But it’s highly speculative.
Microsoft hasn’t been making a lot of money with Windows for a couple of years now and I think they’re pretty aware of the shit show they released with Windows 11. And they already integrated the WSL. So what what if Windows dumps It’s kernel and switches to Linux? The current windows UI could be switched to either native implementations or running through wine while keeping the familiar look and feel. Microsoft would then also need to push patches to the wine project Including their hidden and undocumented, APIs In order to get all the stuff running, they currently need in windows. This would drive the compatibility of Wine and Proton even further.
The windows API are so old and full of legacy stuff that this might a big opportunity for Microsoft to properly abstract them and be done with it.
Windows would be changed to a package based distribution, making updates much less cumbersome.
The remaining capacities could be put where Microsoft earns most of its money: cloud and business applications.
Win(dows)-Win, right?