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Microsoft loves Linux – as in, it loves Linux users running Linux desktop apps on Windows PCs
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But why?
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Microsoft will get Linux apps to run flawlessly in Windows so there will be less of a reason to use Linux instead of Windows. Then Microsoft will extend the functionality of Linux apps running in a Windows environment, and this will cause all sorts of problems for native Linux users trying to run these programs.
This is archaic thinking. Steve Ballmer's Microsoft. These days, Microsoft makes more money from Linux (read Azure) than they do from Windows. Desktop operating systems for consumers are dying.
They do make money from people running linux in the cloud but they will still make money if people run windows (or an EEE version of linux in the cloud).
They will always want more control of the OS people use as it will always be more profitable for them.