Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 year agoSupposedly 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)
lightnegative@lemmy.world 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