Microsoft Just Became a Linux — Here's Why That Should Worry
Microsoft spent years calling Linux a "cancer." Now it's shipping its own Linux distribution, built on Azure, running two-thirds of its own cloud infrastructure. This video breaks down the 1998 "Halloween Documents" that first exposed Microsoft's embrace-extend-extinguish strategy, the Netscape precedent that proves it worked before, and what Azure Linux 4.0 really means for developers who thought this company had genuinely changed. We look at what's confirmed, what's still just convenience dressed up as goodwill, and whether history is quietly repeating itself in 2026.
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