but my take is that MS (I was only an orange badge) honestly thought they could do Linux on the back end without anyone noticing.
Microsoft shifted from a Software company to a cloud provider. They didn’t try to hide Linux, they explicitly marketed to support Linux because Linux was already established and liked in server environments.
Company software is still a large part of Microsoft, but even those software products have shifted into the cloud. Office 365, EntraID, etc. Windows pushes users to use online accounts even for local Windows installs, and pushes users to use OneDrive and cloud Office. Windows mainly serves as an onboarding branch now.
Although they also focus on cloud and AI to onboard people onto their services, I’m glad alternative workflows and backwards compatibility are still a thing in their dotnet programming ecosystem and tooling.
I assume Windows Server remains a tool to keep people in the Windows and Microsoft world if they want to or have traditionally done so. I doubt it’s a strategic focus or plans to be novel. They can share the kernel between Windows and Windows Server, making it relatively cheap to maintain.
Microsoft shifted from a Software company to a cloud provider. They didn’t try to hide Linux, they explicitly marketed to support Linux because Linux was already established and liked in server environments.
Company software is still a large part of Microsoft, but even those software products have shifted into the cloud. Office 365, EntraID, etc. Windows pushes users to use online accounts even for local Windows installs, and pushes users to use OneDrive and cloud Office. Windows mainly serves as an onboarding branch now.
Although they also focus on cloud and AI to onboard people onto their services, I’m glad alternative workflows and backwards compatibility are still a thing in their dotnet programming ecosystem and tooling.
I assume Windows Server remains a tool to keep people in the Windows and Microsoft world if they want to or have traditionally done so. I doubt it’s a strategic focus or plans to be novel. They can share the kernel between Windows and Windows Server, making it relatively cheap to maintain.