Direct consequence of this.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/31/bending-spoons-acquires-file-transfer-service-wetransfer/

After which they fired 75% of the employees. Now they are trying to milk a dying product.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bending-spoons-lay-off-75-185112177.html

Anthrax will integrate HIV into the mix.

It’s kind of the opposite in my mind, WSL is (was) Microsoft capitulating to the fact that Linux is not going away, same with Azure. WSL is mostly for companies. Some companies have a huge contract with Microsoft and manage all laptops with it. Then they grow big enough that they can’t ignore Linux because they have people who need to work on Linux. WSL is the way Microsoft keeps their clients, because otherwise they move to Apple based IT.

EEE would have been investing in PowerShell, PuTTY, or similar.