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>Why should Microsoft cater to people who want to boot Linux?

They don't need to cater to them, they need to NOT block them from doing so, because they're a monopoly in this space.

Exactly. They are not blocking anybody from dual booting here. They simply not supporting this one configuration that he is running.

Which is kind of silly since Apple (notorious for 'my way or the highway') officially supports dual-booting Windows.

Apple needs Windows because next to nobody depends on Mac OS X to do anything. Meanwhile, 90% of the world uses Windows.

Microsoft doesn't need Linux desktop barely anybody runs it.

> Apple needs Windows because next to nobody depends on Mac OS X to do anything.

Photographers, musicians, software developers, small businesses, students.. but except those none, sure..