"Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in Windows 8 [Enterprise] and Windows Server 2012" now available

Microsoft Downloads - Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications includes base utilities, software development kits (SDKs), and shells for use with Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications, a feature that is available for installation on Windows 8 Enterprise and Windows Server 2012

Version: 10.0.7063.0
Date published: 10/31/2012

Language:English

Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications_AMD64.exe, 254.6 MB
Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications_x86.exe, 253.6 MB

Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) includes the following base utilities, software development kits (SDKs), and shells for use with Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications, a feature that is available for installation on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

• Base subsystem commands and utilities
• SVR-5 commands and utilities
• Base subsystem SDK
• GNU SDK
• GNU commands and utilities
• SCO commands and utilities
• UNIX-based Perl
• Microsoft Visual Studio® Debugger Extension for debugging POSIX applications
• Korn and C shells
• Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications HTML Help files (*.chm)

This release allows you to develop x64-based applications by using SUA, and develop and port custom UNIX-based applications to Windows by using the Windows OCI (Oracle Call Interface) and Windows ODBC libraries.

Supported operating systems: Windows 8, Windows Server 2012

This download package installs only on computers that are running Windows 8 Enterprise or the full-GUI installation option of Windows Server 2012. [GD:Emphasis Added]

IMPORTANT: Uninstall any other versions or copies of the Utilities and SDK for SUA before you install the Windows 8 Utilities and SDK for SUA. If you are currently running the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 release of the Utilities and SDK for SUA on your Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 system, uninstall it to prepare for the Windows 8 Utilities and SDK for SUA.

I had thought SUA was being killed and wouldn't appear for Windows 8. Must be the NEXT version of Windows where we're not going to see it?

I had to laugh when I downloaded the AMD64 version and got IE's BRXS (Big Red X Shield). Doh!

Anyway, so saw the bold above? This is for Enterprises... (which have access to SUA, which the Utilities and SDK's, logically, have a dependency on...)

I'm running Win8 Pro and tried to install this anyway. No joy.

Of course Win8 Pro doesn't have the SUA option, so can't install these Utilities and SDK. :( But I guess that makes sense. This really is a business/enterprise kind of capability... Still as a "Professional" I would have liked to have access to these as there's times I could really use SUA and these utilities (cough... handling some long path files... cough)

 

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