This pisses me off. Why on earth would Raspberry pi foundation give Microsoft this kind of access?

I've actually moved more towards ESP32 lately anyway, yet I'm now annoyed by Raspberry pi foundation for doing anything with Microsoft. Raspberry pi is fine without Microsoft.

They claim it is for RPi Pico development.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=301011

Retards like this are the problem:

Also Microsoft seem to have a company wide direction towards supporting Linux systems in a sane, sensible and non-evil way. That's something we should praise them for. The bash shell extension for Windows 10 is an incredibly useful tool. Powershell is an open source replacement for the cmd line and arcane bat files.