back to article Microsoft embraces its inner penguin with Linux-powered Windows AI Studio

A preview of Microsoft's Windows AI Studio has landed – a set of tools and models from catalogs, including Azure AI Studio and Hugging Face – however you'll need Linux to run it. The preview was announced at Microsoft's Ignite event and the Visual Studio Code extension requires Ubuntu 18.04 or greater as well as Windows …

  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    Trollface

    Microsoft's inner penguin ?

    Ballmer must be spinning in his grave.

    What ? He's not dead yet ?

    Damn.

    1. ChoHag Silver badge

      Re: Microsoft's inner penguin ?

      But it's all for the developers, no? He'll be juggling chairs to celebrate.

      1. Peter-Waterman1

        Re: Microsoft's inner penguin ?

        Developers Developers Developers...

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

  2. Maventi
    WTF?

    Wait, this needs both Linux and Windows to run? I feel like that's almost worse than just one or the other.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Lots of Devs already run WSL to access legacy tools and scripts. Especially in corporates. No change here for them if they need to support say old midrange stuff.

  3. Roger Kynaston
    Happy

    Feeling trapped

    A penguin trapped in a Windows body?

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