> I doubt it'll ever happen though because for "new" stuff (where you have to write all your stuff from scratch all over again) everyone expects the OS to be free.
I think one way they could pull it off is to do a WSL2 with Windows - run the NT kernel as a VM on the new OS.
As for the price, I think they're already heading there. They already officially consider Windows to be a service - I'm guessing they're just not finished getting everyone properly addicted to the cloud. If they turn Windows into SaaS execution platform, they may just as well start giving it away for free.
I think one way they could pull it off is to do a WSL2 with Windows - run the NT kernel as a VM on the new OS.
As for the price, I think they're already heading there. They already officially consider Windows to be a service - I'm guessing they're just not finished getting everyone properly addicted to the cloud. If they turn Windows into SaaS execution platform, they may just as well start giving it away for free.