I have a colleague who thinks the same and I can't believe one could be so naive. Nobody cares about Ballmer & co. anymore: what's important is what MS is doing

I have a colleague who thinks the same and I can't believe one could be so naive. Nobody cares about Ballmer & co. anymore: what's important is what MS is doing now. And they show utter contempt for the user, right from the moment when they try to create an account, to the point when they try to use their system with spamware in the start menu and fraudulent links on the home page of their default browser. Of course they have to support Linux on Azure otherwise they would lose customers, but this is just a pragmatic approach and you can be sure they will do whatever is necessary just to make money, whether it's using Linux or anything else.