On 2 April 2016 at 04:32, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
Now another question: why is Canonical doing this?
That's easy.
The business model for Canonical (as it is for any mainstream distro) is to make money from the human factors surrounding FOSS (training, support, documentation).
The link with MS offers new opportunities for the Linux services company that knows more about the MS/Linux integration than any other.