Microsoft was already one of the companies that considered buying Red Hat but turned them down: https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amazon-m

Microsoft was already one of the companies that considered buying Red Hat but turned them down: https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amazon-microsoft-google-before-34-billion-ibm-acquisition-2018-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amaz... Red Hat and its enterprise focus would have been a better fit than the much, much smaller Canonical, so there's no reason to believe that MS would consider buying Canonical.