Microsoft’s Linux love affair continued at the company’s annual Build keynote on Monday, with the revelation that popular Linux command-line tool Bash is coming to Windows 10. Whoa.
And no, it’s not running in a virtual machine, Cygwin, or a emulator. Microsoft partnered with Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, to build native Ubuntu binaries directly into Windows 10 that allow Bash to run. And Microsoft’s already brought SQL Server and Visual Studio to Linux, and embraced Red Hat for Azure services—this commitment to open-source is starting to look pretty darn serious.
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