I think this is the most desperate and pathetic claim for a long time. I mean, it's Google. Google is a dead company. They destroyed the only hand that feeds them. The search engine. They did this on purpose to increase the number of searches. And then I really hate what they done to Google play.

As a senior Azure architect. We try to run as much as possible on Linux to avoid licenses. I don't even understand how you end up running Windows Server on GCP. Never ever heard of a corp that does this. Also, most of the new stuff from MS is platform independent.