Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

I think eventually, we'll see Windows transform into a Linux distro with a Windows UI.

I'm not trying to wrinkle anyone's shorts, but this just makes a lot of financial sense. Let the "community" do most of the OS development and only maintain the Windows UI. This allows them to focus more on services and Azure.

It would look like that's the direction they're moving in if this product were a Windows environment on Linux. Something like a Microsoft supported version of Wine.

As it is, it looks more like a Linux environment on Windows. Analogous to a Cannonical supported version of Cygwin.

I'd love to see Windows as Linux distro because I'd prefer to give full access to my hardware to Linux and only pull out a Windows environment when an application requires it. Desktop Linux users are in the minority though, so I expect there's a lot more demand for the reverse.