Thank you for a detailed and thoughtful response. I definitely agree with you that Microsoft is listening on the server side. The biggest change that really ma

Thank you for a detailed and thoughtful response. I definitely agree with you that Microsoft is listening on the server side. The biggest change that really made me realize this was with the release of Windows Server core. Also, the release of PowerShell as the glue for automation has really made so many things possible. PowerShell is not perfect but it is definitely making a difference in the Windows ecosystem. Sometimes it seems that people that are criticizing Windows are still stuck in the Windows 2003 world and pre-Powershell days. One can basically automate Exchange, SQL Server, IIS etc. using Powershell. Granted, there may be still edge cases, but for the most part it's all there. This is empirical but I also feel that over the last 5-6 years Microsoft has really started to take the best of linux and open source and start to incorporate it into its ecosystem. There are still scenarios where this is not the case but I do notice the trend.