Microsoft Corporation MSFT announced its plans to bring its Bash Shell, which has been a standard on many Linux distribution systems, to Windows 10. JPMorgan’s Rod Hal said that the impact of this would be neutral for Apple Inc. AAPL.
The latest move would allow developers to write their .sh Bash scripts on Windows as well. According to Techcrunch, this will work through a new Linux subsystem in Windows 10 that Microsoft had worked on with Canonical.
Analyst Rod Hall commented, “This announcement combined with the native availability of Ubuntu on Windows 10 and Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (which lets a single piece of code run across multiple Windows devices) can all help improve Microsoft’s position in the developer community.” He added, however, that this was unlikely to have any significant impact on either Apple or Android ecosystems.
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