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Cool! Now make Microsoft Office Open Source! I understand you won't,so atleast release the Linux versions of them!


That would not be a sound strategy. Microsoft choose to make a OS a commodity, but not services and platforms, as part of the strategy to commoditize the complements like developer tooling

Commoditize your complements: https://gwern.net/complement


I remember way, way back when Internet Explorer first came out, there was talk of a Unix/Linux version coming soon.





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