They don't need to physically destroy Linux, all they need is to offer something similar with the Microsoft name attached to it. Communities and hackers may ignore it, but businesses will always see it as a better choice.
Still no problem for die hard enthusiasts, now, but say one day 75% of Linux developers are employed in companies where they work only from a Windows machine under WSL, using VSC and possibly some closed blobs nicely donated by Microsoft, that day the penguin corpse will be already cold.
Based on how you didn't even recognize the acronym, [c|sh]ould you perhaps consider the possibility that there are more things between heaven and earth that you don't know about?
That was unnecessarily condescending. At this point you're asking me to accept that MS is going to EEE Linux on no evidence other than a personal attack and some numbers you made up off the top of your head. I'm sure you see the issue here. Onus is on you to prove the point, not for me to blindly accept it because I didn't know what a business acronym meant.
Still no problem for die hard enthusiasts, now, but say one day 75% of Linux developers are employed in companies where they work only from a Windows machine under WSL, using VSC and possibly some closed blobs nicely donated by Microsoft, that day the penguin corpse will be already cold.