I think this is an interesting market shift for MSFT. I worked there in the late 90's and was there for the introduction of Windows2000. Hillariously most of th

I think this is an interesting market shift for MSFT. I worked there in the late 90's and was there for the introduction of Windows2000. Hillariously most of their big acquisitions ran FreeBSD and/or Solaris and I don't ever recall anyone considering Linux much of a threat since it never really worked for the workloads we were seeing. Even today I rarely see anyone using Linux as a desktop (MSFTs primary market) so 20 something years later its still not really a threat. MSFT is smart enough to offer what people want, maybe this will get more people to try it, not a bad thing.