Personally, since MS has gone all-in on Azure, they don't have a reason to care about OS wars. Windows on the Desktop isn't going anywhere and don't really have a threat, Xbox couldn't be bigger, and the only real competitor to O365 is Google Apps.
They figured out how to monetize their biggest OS rival. They have no reason to extinguish. It's in their best interest to contribute to Open Source in good faith these days.
EEE was never about the OS wars, Microsoft has always controlled the desktop market share via supplier contracts.
EEE was about controlling the web. At this point, with Edge now built on top of Chromium, they've conceded that battle.
Currently, it looks like this article may have correctly identified why Microsoft wanted GitHub: that's where the developers are.
If they leverage this the way they seem headed, they'll try to funnel projects into the Azure ecosystem, with the aim of reducing Google and Amazon's dominance of the Cloud Services market. Note: I don't particularly trust Google, and I definitely don't trust Amazon, so the reduction of their marketshare isn't a bad thing, as long as it doesn't result from Microsoft going rouge again.
They might try leverage their dominance in other areas to push out GitLab and other git hosting competitors, as a way to increase their GitHub to Azure pipeline, or they might compete fairly. We don't currently know how this will play out, Microsoft may well keep things above board, but I don't think we can necessarily trust them to do so, based on the blemishes on their record.
Personally, since MS has gone all-in on Azure, they don't have a reason to care about OS wars. Windows on the Desktop isn't going anywhere and don't really have a threat, Xbox couldn't be bigger, and the only real competitor to O365 is Google Apps.
They figured out how to monetize their biggest OS rival. They have no reason to extinguish. It's in their best interest to contribute to Open Source in good faith these days.
EEE was never about the OS wars, Microsoft has always controlled the desktop market share via supplier contracts.
EEE was about controlling the web. At this point, with Edge now built on top of Chromium, they've conceded that battle.
Currently, it looks like this article may have correctly identified why Microsoft wanted GitHub: that's where the developers are.
If they leverage this the way they seem headed, they'll try to funnel projects into the Azure ecosystem, with the aim of reducing Google and Amazon's dominance of the Cloud Services market. Note: I don't particularly trust Google, and I definitely don't trust Amazon, so the reduction of their marketshare isn't a bad thing, as long as it doesn't result from Microsoft going rouge again.
They might try leverage their dominance in other areas to push out GitLab and other git hosting competitors, as a way to increase their GitHub to Azure pipeline, or they might compete fairly. We don't currently know how this will play out, Microsoft may well keep things above board, but I don't think we can necessarily trust them to do so, based on the blemishes on their record.
Oh, we should absolutely trust none of these companies.
I just think that the MSFT under Nadella is night and day different than the MSFT under Ballmer.
I'm absolutely expecting them to prove me wrong and that nothing is different.