[treyd]

This would be self-sabotage for Microsoft, it erodes their moat. If they actually cared about user producitivity and making those specific products as widely used as possible then it would be reasonable for people to expext this, but that's not their real goal. Acquiring Canonical changes nothing about their ability to make this happen, they could do it today, but their corporate strategy forbids it.

[abeyer]

I dunno... Canonical + Ubuntu + Snap Store might be just the right amount of closed market to start to make this make sense to them.