> how we can ever become independent of Microsoft Guess it depends on the context? If you need to run Windows Servers and run Microsoft services then well, you

> how we can ever become independent of Microsoft Guess it depends on the context? If you need to run Windows Servers and run Microsoft services then well, you're better off with Microsoft, most likely. But for other workloads, it won't matter what the client software is, but again, really depends on the context.