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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Microsoft Still Trying To Turn Dimdows Into Linux
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 23:46:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Microsoft is definitely suffering from Linux-envy. There are many
parts to this envy, of course: one of them is package-manager-envy.
Microsoft would dearly love for Windows to have a common architecture
for installing and updating add-on packages, like most Linux distros
do.

But there are lots of obstacles to this in the proprietary-software
world, not least of which is that the major proprietary-software
developers would never agree to it, because they see it as a loss of
control over their own Intellectual Property.

<https://www.theverge.com/news/675446/microsoft-windows-update-all-apps-orchestration-platform>