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Azure is the cloud backbone of many businesses and services, so if Windows went away, MS would still have their fingers in a number of pies.
I've previously predicted that Microsoft would slowly divest of Windows thanks to declining desktop/laptop markets and eventually as a cost saving measure cut over to just making a Linux distro with their own proprietary DE.
As it is if the rumors are true that they're destroying their codebase with AI coding they'll have quite the job ahead of them to clean it all up once the AI bubble pops. They'd have two easier options essentially at that point: either roll back 2-6 years in their codebase and rebuild every update and change that they wanted to keep or rewrite from scratch (which they'd basically be looking at in order to clean up the AI mess) I could very much see a future where Microsoft looks at that gargantuan job and says "ehh let's just use someone else's work" and shifts to a Linux of BSD kernel
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