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As a long time techie, and somebody that's run Linux as my main OS for over 20yrs, hard to hate MS more than me, but, MS is a very different company now than in years past. They've come pretty far from the days of Ballmer destroying it, directly involved with more Open source shit now, Azure is literally Linux, they have people working physically with Canonical on all the WSL shit, they're trying at least.
Still wouldn't run garbage Windows for shit, but credit where credit is due.
I keep seeing stuff like this but I don't get it. Azure is Linux because if it was Windows only, nobody would use it. It's a shit service filled with tricks to lock customers in.
It's obvious that WSL is EEE. It only exists because of their focus on the cloud, and they realized that Windows was a poor dev environment for Linux software. Microsoft is directly incentivized to kill Linux so people get even more locked in to their ecosystem.
Is the reason you have a good impression of them because you use VS Code? That's not even open source. The proprietary parts are all more spyware and walled garden shit designed to lock you in.
Or maybe you're not a dev, and it's because you like Xbox gamepass? That's an anticompetitive attempt to monopolize the game industry. It's unsustainable and designed to price out the competition and lock in customers, which is classic monopoly shit. It's the best deal in the game industry today, but prices will shoot up when they get the market share they want.
The golden rule still applies today, as it did 20+ years ago: never trust Microsoft
They say gamepass is profitable!