I’m would think MS will somewhat relent on this and provide some kind of solution. If not, the Linux community is a lot more intelligent than the MS community, and they will find a way around this.
My very large computer company is now starting to refresh its laptops with Linux laptops. We can still run Window applications by using a Windows shell program, but Linux applications will eventually replace most of those.
I imagine the cost savings doing this are huge!
Being a Steam fanatic, I've been following Valve's Linux development, and it appears that just today they announced that they're working on Steam for Linux.
In my opinion, Linux is the way of the future. Microsoft is trying too hard and starting to falter where Apple excels. They need to focus on their home desktop and business enterprise software and stop with this gamesmanship garbage. There are a LOT of things they're exceptionally good at, and they should stick with that stuff.