This is the threat Microsoft is facing. What's interesting is that Microsoft doesn't know it. What really makes me pity Microsoft is that, as in the cases mentioned above, it is going to do some spectacular dives in the near future, like a Rugby League player taking a voluntary spear tackle, yet nobody is going to laugh. Voluntary tackles are when the player hits the deck before the tackler hits him. A spear tackle is getting upended while being tackled, then getting dumped on your head.
Spear tackles carry stiff penalties.
Spare Microsoft the time to laugh. Wesley Parish is a Linux user.