[GTALUG] ​Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet

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On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2016-03-31 09:53 PM, Giles Orr wrote:
>>
>> Or, as a friend of mine put it, 'the concept of "embrace, extend,
>> extinguish" hasn't been lost.'
>
> I don't think the target of MS's extinguishment is us. It's very hard to
> compete with the nebulous world of Linux. You can't create a business
> plan to attack something that has so many facets.
>
> MS can, however, attack Apple. Apple destroys Microsoft on the desktop.
> I'm not talking about the business desktop, where Windows is still
> solid, but in the notebooks you see people using on the road, in coffee
> shops, in colleges, and so on. Microsoft wants a piece of that “Creative
> ClassӠ action, and the more of it they can funnel onto Office 365 and
> Azure subscriptions, the better. The move to a no-charge Windows licence
> is like Gillette handing out free razors. Apple and Microsoft can make
> far more money on services than they ever could hawking hardware and
> software.
>

You may have found the dragon behind the facade!!

MS thinks it needs to own all aspects - - - what is interesting is most
companies that have done these kind of shenanigans merely developed
their demise!

Dee