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EDIT: Misunderstood your comment.
As far as cloud infra goes, rumor has it that a lot of Azure's underlying shit is on Linux already. Would explain the cross compatibility work with WSL, PowerShell, .Net, etc over the past decade or so.
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It's a wonderful dream, but you underestimate how many systems' server components are still built to run on Windows Servers, and I've yet to find a vendor that doesn't support it.Plus the extremely long tail of places running legacy software for as long as fucking possible because they refuse to spend money on newer shit.
"Soon" is relative. I think it's more likely that containerization will make the underlying OS matter less and less. It'll end up being a matter of licensing, support, ease of management with existing tools, that sort of shit. Ultimately the suits want someone to be able to yell at, even if raising a ticket with Microsoft is like pissing into the wind.
Honestly, I've always wondered that if that was the end goal. Nadella has a server background. And as someone who once unintentionally got handed a Windows Server-based hosting plan years ago (long story), I can tell you it sucked. I don't blame him for seeing the writing on the wall.