“Microsoft has submitted a series of patches to the Linux kernel with its aim being “to create a complete virtualization stack with Linux and Microsoft Hypervisor.”
The patches are designated “RFC” (Request for comments) and are a minimal implementation presented for discussion.”
We’ve been saying that ever since Satia Nadela’s First Keynote speech as MS CEO.
Azure is glued together by Linux. WSL[1&2], Xamarin puchase, and etc happening. Supporting other platforms… if Balmer was still in charge, this would have been an elaborate Trojan horse or Hell would hath frozen over.
I believe they could bake some distro in the future, aiming at red hat maybe, or even absorb ubuntu, but there will always be a more locked down version of windows