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The MSDN blog post [1] says that it will download distribution updates much faster and also support side-by-side distribution installs when installed from the store (ie, you could have both Ubuntu and Fedora installed side-by-side).

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/07/10/ubun...

It changes how you manage it. Instead of "lxrun" command you use "ubuntu".

And directories where it stores the data are managed by Windows Store (so root file system lives in %localappdata%\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs, distro image is in %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_16.0.4.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc\install.tar.gz).

There are some decent improvements heading to WSL soon (as part of the Windows 10 Creators Update). I'm waiting until the ability to access network drives is added in (which should be part of the aforementioned update) before using WSL again.