• rootinit@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    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.

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      4 years ago

      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.