Desktop Linux market share has been growing in past years among developers, just check the stack overflow surveys. This is MS fighting over that market share by

Desktop Linux market share has been growing in past years among developers, just check the stack overflow surveys. This is MS fighting over that market share by providing an alternative. They don't do it to help Linux but to protect their own base line. For employees this means less ability to justify running Linux on developer boxes and having to run Windows like the rest of the company.