[snhkicker]

I think this will be met VERY VERY badly by readers of this comment but this change as far as i understand is windows telling canonical to help them in taking their customers i live in egypt and other than containers and CLI and running it as webservers there is practically no way for anyone to even consider using linux i don't think this will end up well for linux i think windows attempts will take the webservers business from linux in 5 years or something which is probably 90% of it

[digi_owl]

Microsoft has their own cloud service, Azure.

And Ubuntu's biggest "market" these days is not desktop, but as a container base.

So this is MS getting cozy with Canonical to offer a development environment for Ubuntu based containers destined for Azure.