I'm going to go with "nothing". They blend their numbers but I'd be willing to bet the amount of money they make selling direct licenses is tiny. (Tiny at their scale, I'd take it any day.) The whole OEM business isn't even huge to them. If they start losing the enterprise market, then I'm sure they would throw down, but you and everyone you know installing Linux would be fine. Have you noticed how easy it is to steal windows and how there seem to be very few repercussions? That says volumes about what they think the revenue potential of that market is..
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Their only chance there was the late 90s to early 2000s. MS is one company compared to the totality of mega corporations using Linux and MS also uses a lot of Linux. More money at play in the server market than the general desktop OS market. Linux is the server OS
The US government increasingly uses Linux. Other countries pick up Linux at a faster rate than the US. A higher percentage of people use MacOS today than 20 years ago
When?
Damnit Jim I'm a doctor, not an actor
Add more spyware, isn’t that the de facto mentality of Microsoft? Add more spyware so they can force you to buy more crap, al for the “greater good”. Oh yeah, and most likely try and take over secureboot with some Microsoft crap allowed only, “for to protect the children”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7lI2fyyleY&pp=ygUVZmx5dGVjaCBMaW51eCB3aW5kb3dz
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It's an Apil fools video. Not real
I'd wager they have enough resources to stave it off for as long as possible, and when they can't do that anymore they will have a strategy for making money off of their "services" in the linux space.
Microsoft is part of the cabal at this point. Businesses give it money because they're expected to.
All out street warfare against Linux users! They'll be arming their army with AI laser guided missiles! The backdoored AI drones!