SUA Deprecated In Windows 8?

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, 2011 @02:30AM from the how-does-being-assimilated-feel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I just tried to install Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) on Windows 8 Preview and found that it's marked as DEPRECATED: 'Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) is a source-compatibility subsystem for compiling and running custom UNIX-based applications and scripts on a computer running Windows operating system. WARNING: SUA is deprecated starting with this release and will be completely removed in the next release. You should begin planning now to employ alternate methods for any applications, code, or usage that depend on this feature.'"

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Not a surprise by gweihir · 2011-09-22 02:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

As MS cannot compete (and never could compete) on technical merit, of course they have to remove any compatibility with industrial standards they can. This is a leftover from a time when MS thought they had good technology. By now they know they do not and never will.

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