I wouldn’t trust Windows to store a cookbook on but apparently someone wants to run arch in it. 
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This sounds stupid as all hell! 
I lost trust in Windows years ago!
Windows is just Spyware at this point!
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I hate Microsoft putting it’s nose into everything where it doesn’t belong. 
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What could possibly go wrong except for EVERYTHING.
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It is bad enough I have to run Ubuntu under WSL2 on my work laptop rather than just run Linux. But I’m not really sure of the point of running Arch as you are generally developing/testing something to push to test then prod that are not going to be running on Arch, but hey ho I’ve just had to restart my Windows laptop as apparently it completely forgot my monitor resolution when the screen went to sleep and Windows thought the monitor resolution was 1920x1440 (it’s 2560x1440)… yay.
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Just the first thing I can think of is while updating Arch MS Spyware updates and forces a reboot during the Arch update. And of course that spyware will be built in to the custom VM Microsoft developed.
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To be honest i don’t want to run Arch in WSL or any other linux distro the same as I don’t want to run any distro from a usb drive. Even running a vm… sure i do for some things mostly trying things out or testing but I’d rather have a real install on real hardware. Even running a vm is not a long term thing for me. I like bare metal! 
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who in their right mind want windows on their system , but run linux from windows ??
just make no sense to me lol
for me its 𓆩łīꞥᵾӿ ꝋɍ ꞥꝋⱦħīꞥꞡ𓆪
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Hmmm…3rd-party implementations of Arch WSL have been available for a couple of years now (for example, this: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mznmnksm73x?hl=en-US&gl=US), not sure why this is news.
And the OP link specifically states that this “new” image will not be in the Microsoft Store.
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personally , i don’t care lol
windows and linux shouldn’t mix together, full stop .
it’s always been 2 totally different things , but now windows wants to start playing nice ?
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No Microsoft wants to collect data. Running anything in Windows is subject to becoming input for their AI as well as making sure to keep enough on you to keep them out of Jail.
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yes that is true , scary stuff 
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