Windows, quo vadis?

And here I was hoping that "%Y+1 will be the year of Linux on the desktop" has died a quiet death sometime around 2008 ;)

But indeed - despite all its shortcomings, Linux is becoming more attractive (or rather, Windows Nein is becoming radically less attractive with all those new artificial barriers tacked on top of the old-and-familiar ones).

No mention of Azure or Windows Containers!?