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Richard calls it "GNU/kWindows" (like GNU/kFreeBSD); I wrote an article with his input a while back:

https://mikegerwitz.com/2016/04/GNU-kWindows

I think Gnudows is a pretty catchy portmanteau.

If I'm not mistaken, the view is,

a) don't want to provide nice tools to windows users because then they'll no longer have the need to switch to a libre system

b) do want to provide nice tools to windows users because then they'll get a taste of how liberating freedom is

obviously there is a balance there, and I think GNU/NT might be a bit too far into entrenching-the-user for his tastes, though I can't speak for him obviously.

It seems there is no political note on his site for the announcement of ubuntu-on-windows.

It's not running the Linux kernel, but it's implementing Linux kernel interfaces. Microsoft may ship a lot of GNU software now but presumably the same interfaces could be used to run alternatives like busybox and uclibc. This keeps the naming debates interesting, I suppose.