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OH Thank You. Now I feel much better. Still dislike the name but my brain is much easier on me knowing there is a valid reason behind it.

Windows NT is historically made up of several subsystems that use this naming scheme, so they decided to go with it again.

It is "[The] Windows Subsystem for [running] Android"

I think they are just following the naming convention started (a long time ago) with "Windows Services for UNIX".

Windows first, because Microsoft wants their OS to not give any lime-light to Linux or alternative OS's.

If they felt that way, they probably wouldn't be building the thing in the first place.