Here he says that in order for the cloud and the PC to be compatible, he's going to only support WSL2, the Windows subsystem for Linux which is a Linux API on top of Windows.
Here's a link to the part of the keynote where he says this:
Here's a link to the part of the keynote where he says this:
WSL1 was "Linux API on top of NT kernel picoprocesses", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Hyper-V"
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/under-the-hood-of-microsofts-w...