As a Linux user for now 20 years, I think the author is under some kind of delusion that windows doesn't provide enough value to exist on its own. I thus assum

As a Linux user for now 20 years, I think the author is under some kind of delusion that windows doesn't provide enough value to exist on its own. I thus assume the autor must be very young, and has little experience with the reality of the corporate world, which loves: - compatibility - inertia - deployment automation - technical support - strong legal support (compliance, contracts, DOD approval...) - social proof (reputation, certification, etc) - have a big player that can be held responsible - predictability Apple is not interested in it, Red Hat is not big enough, Google has desmontrated its incapability to do it, and so on. But MS provides all that, and better than any Unix shop in town. It would be economically ridiculous to turn Windows into Linux and lose all that stuff. Merging the two could happen if they manage to keep all their pieces of the pie, and I assume WSL is a first step in that direction. Or maybe it's the embrace stage, I don't know.