It's amazing to me the extent to which the independent computer geek press is completely drinking Microsoft's peculiar Kool-Aid. They seem willing to engage in some kind of cover-up for Microsoft's benefit.
Remember that the question is "will Microsoft survive" not "are we going to lose computing as we know it." We'll be fine whether Microsoft is looking out for our interests or someone else like Canonical does. We win no matter how this turns out. Either Microsoft has completely lost its moral bearings and dies a well deserved death, it gets new management who value and respect customers as the ones from whom all prosperity flows, this only matters to the fate of Microsoft. We're going to be just fine.
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