Still in embrace IMO. First they have to get corporations to adopt the Microsoft version, though this can be helped along by Extending the Microsoft Linux dist

Still in embrace IMO. First they have to get corporations to adopt the Microsoft version, though this can be helped along by Extending the Microsoft Linux distribution. Then, once it becomes the most popular distribution, perhaps in conjunction with buying Canonical, they will control Linux. Sure, they likely have to dance with IBM for a while to retain Red Hat's kernel developers, but if IBM can make some cash and secure some concessions from Microsoft, they'd probably be glad to sell Red Hat's assets to Microsquash sometime down the road. It's all conspiracy theory of course. But wouldn't the world look different if Microsoft acquired Canonical and Red Hat. And before someone drags out the GPL and says that can't happen, that problem is easily fixed by putting all of Microsquash's enhancements in kernel modules, or inventing some new wiz-bang tech to run their stuff outside the kernel and outside the GPL. Nah, that could never happen.