I believe that you believe that, but I cannot believe that's true. Microsoft is far too big to care about any trends, including open source. They are simply doi

I believe that you believe that, but I cannot believe that's true. Microsoft is far too big to care about any trends, including open source. They are simply doing what makes the most money within the time scales they operate. If that means supporting certain open source projects right now, that's what they'll do. If it means hindering open source adoption overall, they'll do that. Sources: ODF vs OOXML, terrible support for Linux across their application suite, this article, and a tediously huge list of things happening several times per year at least since the 90s.