I keep seeing this since Windows XP days, when DX 10 going to be Vista only, and that would be surely be the point that would drive everyone into GNU/Linux.

Instead even me, I went back to Windows as major laptop OS back when Windows 7 came out, leaving GNU/Linux for servers and embedded, while enjoying Android/Linux and WebOS/Linux on the other devices.

Microsoft already has their own distro for Azure, they just need to give a bit more relevance to WSL role on Windows laptops, doing an Apple move, and everyone that only cares about UNIX/POSIX without religious attachment to a specific form of UNIX will feel right at home.

Just like out of the sudden, a few years into OS X, there were Apple devices all over the place at FOSDEM.