Path of the course perhaps. After 30+ years of fighting a what was always a "rear guard action" against the prevailing dominant Unix customs and methods Nadella has switched Microsoft and Windows into a full-on conformist mode by removing the immediate -> monetization of the OS and thus the need to be "different".

It would not surprise me in a few years to come, to find even sooner than expected that "Windows" had become another variant of Unix in effect if not entirely in fact.