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>Microsoft's love of backwards-compatibility

This is like, the primary reason to do this move. Wine has better compatibility for windows software than windows has now in my experience.

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It's far easier to port Wine to run on modern Windows than to port Windows to run on a Linux kernel.

It's also far easier to port an old Windows application to run on modern Windows, or write a program on modern Windows targeting old Windows, than it is to do any of this on Linux.

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