"Sell Office on Steam, make sure it runs on Linux, too"
Oh, the Linux dreamer who believes MS should work to kill Windows (and itself) and make Linux dominating the world...
Steam? LOL, why should they ever give money to another store, which implies other cruft to install, and be tracked by? They can simply sell Office directly or through resellers like they always did.
Is Google more a browser company than MS? Actually MS started well before to develop browsers, and Chrome just became the new IE - a trojan horse to try to dominate web applications development, plus slurping data.
Just a single server edition? Why? Even under Linux you find different editions. Not all users are equal. And from a commercial perspective make full sense. Can the actual one be improved? Sure. But it also allows lower prices for entry level users.
What is a "reasonable" price for you? I'm afraid it's very low... right? There are licenses to run several images. If you ever only used OEMs one, it's only your fault.
Android apps? Why should someone run crappy phone apps sending slurped data home on a PC?
Containers can be run on Windows - supporting Linux apps? Which ones? One reason people don't use Linux is the lack of applications. Why spending a lot of effort to run non existent apps? You can still run Linux in a VM under Hyper-V, and 10 has some Linux support, if you need to run the few server ones you need.
There are also the GPL issues - how far you can go to support, say EXT4 (but why?) without falling into the GPL trap? You just need to write a file system driver for Windows to support them, why no open source project did it?
Vulkan is not a "standard" - it's just a library - and while both Apple and MS are members of the consortium, why both shouldn't develop their own ones (Metal and DirectX)?
I really fear a world where there's no competition and everything is controlled by a single entity. It was wrong that could be Microsoft, but another entity would be no better.
Linux wasn't written "by God", and has its own issues - healthy competition stimulates improvements.
One OS to rule them all would just bind everybody in darkness.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
