>>Or, just imagine microsoft won and you substitute windows for linux in this thought exercise. Wouldn’t that be a problem for innovation? There is no "winner"

>>Or, just imagine microsoft won and you substitute windows for linux in this thought exercise. Wouldn’t that be a problem for innovation? There is no "winner" as far as I can tell in the grand scheme of things. We're talking about a set niche of computing. Win10 is still superior for a lot of GPU-clustering specific work; HBM2 memops via Vega architecture comes to mind as the Linux compute drivers are simply inadequate and the Windows tooling is significantly better.