EEE model won’t work against Linux because there are far too many other companies and Shareware operators out there for Microsoft to extinguish.
What Microsoft is up to I believe is, that they want to have a foot hold in Linux because too many companies and government orgs are going to Linux because they can not afford the MS licenses for all of their work stations.
MS wants to develop Linux based software to run on these machines.
If you can’t beat them join them.
I don't know about everything, but I know what MS did to Skype. In July I started taking a language course by Skype on my MacBookPro. Not only would it stop working approximately hourly, but it then refused to Quit. Force-Quit was necessary to get back to where Skype could be restarted.
[[What Microsoft is up to I believe is, that they want to have a foot hold in Linux because too many companies and government orgs are going to Linux because they can not afford the MS licenses for all of their work stations.]]
And then, after they suck these companies in (via ‘cross compatibility), then they turn it into a ‘pay to play’ system-