Jonathan GerlachI think Scott Hanselman is the only remaining adult in the room at MSFT and I was hoping he'd push for an open source core of Windows. The kernel, enough userspace to run PowerShell, Windows Containers, etc. There'd be a tiny core of the good parts of Windows that can survive the collapse of the company. Even though he's a VP, I don't think this outcome is probable, but I'm going to keep hoping anyway.
Ross Andrews@JonathanGerlach There would be some irony in “Windows” surviving as a ui-less foundation you run another windowing system on top of. Since it began as the inverse.
@randrews I agree that this would be weird. I would rather there be N virtual desktops and RDP in this theoretical code drop, but I don't think MSFT even owns that code, as it was omitted from Windows Containers.
@JonathanGerlach I think in order to be useful, they would need to open source enough to run legacy win32-api apps. That would be a godsend though.
Greg Brooks@randrews @JonathanGerlach I’d get to complain about GDI+ support in Wayland 😂