{"id":117539,"date":"2017-05-13T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117539"},"modified":"2017-05-12T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T13:37:52","slug":"linux-is-coming-to-the-windows-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/117539-linux-is-coming-to-the-windows-store","title":{"rendered":"Linux is coming to the Windows Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that three versions of Linux are coming to the Windows Store.<\/p>\n<p>At Microsoft\u2019s Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle, the company detailed the move \u2013 along with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which includes new tools.<\/p>\n<p>The company made many Linux users smile by announcing that it has simplified the install of Ubuntu by bringing it to the Windows Store.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also announced it is working on SUSE Linux and Fedora Linux running on the Windows Subsystem for Linux.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, Windows is the only platform that can run both Windows apps and Linux apps side-by-side,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/210448-ubuntu-suse-and-fedora-linux-comes-to-windows-store.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/208786-linux-kernel-4-11-released.html\">Linux kernel 4.11 released<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that three versions of Linux are coming to the Windows Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":86632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2065,17398],"class_list":["post-117539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-linux","tag-windows-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}