This has nothing to do with compiling Linux with Microsoft compilers. Or anything to do with Microsoft at all. So... no. "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" makes no

This has nothing to do with compiling Linux with Microsoft compilers. Or anything to do with Microsoft at all. So... no. "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" makes no sense in this context. The entire story here is "they enabled an old compiler quirk in GCC to have a bit more flexibility".