Two perspectives on the recent grand entry of Microsoft into the Linux space:
1. Linux won in the embedded (ARM devices), mobile (Android) and server spaces, and this is Microsoft bowing to that.
2. This is Microsoft's embrace, extend and extinguish strategy from the 1990s in a new wrapper. They just had to do it to an operating system this time.
Not sure if these perspectives are correct, but I'm just throwing them out there as food for thought.
1. Linux won in the embedded (ARM devices), mobile (Android) and server spaces, and this is Microsoft bowing to that.
2. This is Microsoft's embrace, extend and extinguish strategy from the 1990s in a new wrapper. They just had to do it to an operating system this time.
Not sure if these perspectives are correct, but I'm just throwing them out there as food for thought.