If Desktop Linux was as influential as server Linux, you bet (post Ballmer) Microsoft would be on board. Look at how quickly Microsoft moved on Office for the i

If Desktop Linux was as influential as server Linux, you bet (post Ballmer) Microsoft would be on board. Look at how quickly Microsoft moved on Office for the iPad and Android after Ballmer left the company. Ballmer era Microsoft was dogmatic "Microsoft Everywhere". Post Ballmer Microsoft is pragmatic. It's a huge contrast. Desktop Windows is no longer the center of Microsoft's strategy, they are now much more cloud focused. Office and Azure, are their big profit centers. Ballmer would be rolling over in his grave[1] if he knew how far down the pecking order Windows had fallen. [1] I know