On 6/8/2022 2:18 am, Sativa GNutella wrote:
> Sure, Microsoft could easily create their own Linux distribution;
> similarly to what Amazon has done. However, Ubuntu (made by
> Canonical) is already the most used Linux distribution within
> Microsoft Azure. Plus, Microsoft has had some close integration
> in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows 10 where
> even though other Linux distros are supported, it?s clear that
> Ubuntu is the preferred distribution to use with WSL. Due to this
> popularity of Ubuntu Linux on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform,
> and the tight integration using WSL with Windows 10; it really
> seems to make perfect sense that if Microsoft wanted their own
> Linux distribution for the Azure cloud and for Windows 10,
> Microsoft would choose to continue this relationship to the next
> level by acquiring the Canonical (the company that makes the
> Ubuntu Linux distribution.)

Isn't SCO Unix a dead end? :)

And you have to consider the differences between frontend and backends.