Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    Supposedly they eventually got android apps to run on windows phone directly, the app devs would only need to publish their Android app to wp. But if they actually got that far they never released such an option.

    I’ve heard that the tech they got from developing this Android app support eventually turned into the WSL system on windows (the windows feature that let’s you run a Linux kernel/terminal and subsequently, Linux programs)

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      1 year ago

      Must’ve been WSL1 which they eventually abandoned. Trying to reimplement all the Linux syscalls on top of the Windows kernel was always going to be a neverending game of catch up.

      WSL2 they just run an actual Linux kernel within Hyper-V