Microsoft making their products better? What an absolutely evil plot they're concocting!
Ya'll stuck in the Microsoft of 20 years ago. I hold no great love for Microsoft or its products, and large corporate power can always be abused, but screeching "EEE!" at the slightest hint with no evidence based on assumptions on what they might do in 5 years is just silly.
MS (like all corporations) only cares about one thing, making money. It's not silly to distrust a corporation that has repeatedly in the past stolen, subverted, and act in bad faith as soon as a 'threat' to their complete dominance has shown up.
Yes, most of the old-guard are gone. (Gates, Ballmer, etc)
But I'm not entirely ready to trust them yet. (Windows10 telemetry, not honouring user-defined configuration [Peer-to-Peer updates active even though it's disabled in user-facing options], Candy Crush and all other game 'apps' being pulled from the MS store.)
So they aren't even acting wholly trustworthy now, even under this current management. Why would I trust them to be nice with Linux?
The entire point is move people away from Linux and back onto the gimped version of the platform provided by MS.
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23867754