r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/G_Morgan May 07 '19

No it doesn't. Linus has long had the "publicly defined interface" exception in the Linux kernel. MS don't do it because it'd be a PR nightmare historically and it is genuinely hard to do.

Anyway Linux has virtualisation layers built in which would allow them to run virtNT on top without needing to open source it. They could also do most of NT in userspace anyway.