Microsoft are becoming more "open" because, like many other companies, they're shifting into a service business where much of the software has been commodified,

Microsoft are becoming more "open" because, like many other companies, they're shifting into a service business where much of the software has been commodified, with the actual product being the monolith platform you rent computing resources and tasks from. As such, there is no necessity to foist any preferences, provided they're running on their (ultimately proprietary) server farm. No copyleft unless there's a linking exception, obviously. I've seen little that would convince me to actually move back to Windows as an OS. All of the privacy SNAFUs that are leaking out do not inspire confidence.