Unless you can demonstrate to Microsoft that enterprise desktop Linux support ROI can ever rivals Window’s or their cloud bunsiness, they won’t be interested.

Unless you can demonstrate to Microsoft that enterprise desktop Linux support ROI can ever rivals Window’s or their cloud bunsiness, they won’t be interested. In fact, I’m pretty sure Microsoft doesn’t know what to do with the Windows business at this point. They really would love to dump it, but they can’t. Office is more profitable than Windows. Azure is more profitable that Office and Windows. If trends keep, Xbox will over take Windows. There is no growth potential anywhere in the Windows business. They tried hard with the Surface line to imitate what Apple has with OSX, but they failed. Surface didn’t become the de facto Windows hardware like the Mac is for OSX. It’s just a side hussle to see where it could lead in the future for them. Microsoft already announced their “Azure Linux” distribution which is like Amazon is a fedora based Linux flavor that just lets them control the versioning of all user space rpm packages for a server/docker offering in Azure. they have no interest in making this a full “Enterprise Linux” offering. as long as they can offer servers an docker images that are rpm compatible, they are good for now. WSL is entirely kernel layer. So whatever your distro is, they are good with it.