Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.

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    10 days ago

    it would be pretty interesting if Microsoft made the next version of Windows a Linux distro with a Windows emulation layer

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      10 days ago

      I think it’d be a full screen ai client app running on linux, probably on cage. why bother with the nt and win32 and whatever middlewares. linux is externally maintained. saved dev money can be used for power/ram bills instead.

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      10 days ago

      That would never happen. The entire reason why Windows is not as power efficient as MacOS or some Linux distros is the backwards compatibility that it brings. People laugh at the fact that you can still find icons and .dlls from Windows 95 (or, probably, even 3), but that’s exactly one of the reasons why this OS is so massively popular, especially for enterprise users.

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        10 days ago

        I’m sorry but this is just not true. The legacy support within Linux is insane and it’s one of the hallmarks of the operating system.

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          10 days ago

          Linux has excellent legacy support for Linux.

          Now run a 1998 obscure Windows vendor custom app. The vendor went out of business 30 years ago.

          Not to mention that it would kill the entirety of existing IT automation, the entirety of centralised system management, and lots more.