There are no conflicts. The latest strategy across the board is to give away everything for free and then run it on the cloud. In that sense microsoft has a lot

There are no conflicts. The latest strategy across the board is to give away everything for free and then run it on the cloud. In that sense microsoft has a lot to gain actually by offering a solution in .net and then making it dead simple to deploy to azure. Software and hardware are now a commodity and all the big players know it. So the only way to make money is to add value some other way like making it dead simple to deploy tensor flow graphs in gce.