This is Huge!  Who would have thought that you could have native Ubuntu binaries running in windows?  I guess Microsoft is serious about their move towards open source.

Microsoft today announced at its Build conference in San Francisco that it’s bringing the Bash shell to Windows. Bash is a common Unix command-line tool for working with source code. It ships with Macs. And for Microsoft to do this is big because Bash runs on Linux. “This is not a VM. This is not…

via Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows — VentureBeat