Embrace phase sounds about right. If MS make it as easy to run desktop apps on Windows as it is on Linux, then the question of why even run a dedicated Linux m

Embrace phase sounds about right. If MS make it as easy to run desktop apps on Windows as it is on Linux, then the question of why even run a dedicated Linux machine if you can do everything on Windows? becomes relevant. I suppose clipboard integration already works? And drag n' drop? Once that mindset is heavily entrenched (e.g. in Enterprises), then the extend phase can begin. I don't think MS are as scared as they were previously when Linux started to dominate the server landscape, and swathes of new developers (especially web backend) moved to a java, ROR and Python (or LAMP), where MS were absolutely nowhere in the stack.