As far as cloud infra goes, rumor has it that a lot of Azure’s underlying shit is on Linux already. Would explain the cross compatibility work with WSL, PowerShell, .Net, etc over the past decade or so.

Honestly, I’ve always wondered that if that was the end goal. Nadella has a server background. And as someone who once unintentionally got handed a Windows Server-based hosting plan years ago (long story), I can tell you it sucked. I don’t blame him for seeing the writing on the wall.