Or even had they acquired Be instead. Microsoft had "WSL" earlier, only badly. The only reason I started with Linux at home back in 1995, was the half hearted

Or even had they acquired Be instead. Microsoft had "WSL" earlier, only badly. The only reason I started with Linux at home back in 1995, was the half hearted UNIX subsystem on Windows NT. Had they been serious about it I am sure GNU/Linux would never taken off. As shown by Apple sales of folks buying POSIX instead.