Linux'izing your Windows PC into a dev machine
Just a reminder, that <i>embrace, extend, and exterminate</i> (aka <i>extinguish</i>) was <i>both</i> an anti-competitive strategy with collateral damage to society, <i>and</i> simply acting with normal self-interest to help customers.<p>Even if one believes a post-Gates&#x2F;Ballmer&#x2F;Myhrvold Microsoft no longer behaves illegally&#x2F;unethically, one can still look forward to an embrace being followed by extension and extinguishing.  Because that&#x27;s how the incentives play out.<p>Embrace: Of course we want to give our users the best, even when some of that originated elsewhere.<p>Extend: We&#x27;re not going to hold back our users by waiting on slow-moving standards bodies - often slowed by our competitors.  Helping competitors isn&#x27;t a priority for us.  And the wellbeing of those <i>few</i> people who aren&#x27;t our users, is understandably also not a high priority for us.<p>Exterminate: Why should we expend any effort at all towards keeping competitors viable?  Why shouldn&#x27;t we actively help potential customers join us?   Why should we prioritize resources to helping a few disgruntled ones leave?  Why shouldn&#x27;t we fully monetize our intellectual property, both directly, and through affiliated third-parties like Intellectual Ventures?<p>Microsoft failed on phones, but VR&#x2F;AR is coming, and it will transform the market for phones, laptops, and desktops.   Once upon a time Microsoft created Windows-only web extensions.  Now Mozilla writes them for it.  <i>Windows Everywhere</i> may still happen.  And &quot;you can use Linux inside of Windows&quot; is a big step towards that.  It&#x27;s not clear that&#x27;s something to be happy about.