Is it me, or this looks like a covert Microsoft > Ubuntu takeover?

Long time Ubuntu user, first time I see release notes mentioning a brand. More exactly, tailored to a brand.

I'm a bit worried. I was Microsoft-free for decades, now everything around me (repository, programming language, editor, package manager, operating system??) starts to be Microsoft again.

It's perhaps nothing wrong with this. But I guess there is a certain cohort which will never forgive and forget the Microsoft deeds.

You might have missed the era during which search queries (and motd messages) in the Ubuntu Desktop environment were forwarded to Amazon.

So, because it is an « Open source operating system based on Linux » Ubuntu might just forget every partnerships to make his distribution more « work friendly » for the average consumer?

That’s a bit too extremist...

You’re still free to not use the Microsoft products integration.

Microsoft now Embracing Ubuntu/Linux. We know their Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.

It's not a "Microsoft takeover". Whoever wrote the release notes, shows a focus to business users rather than the community.

> which will never forgive and forget the Microsoft deeds

Which are those?

Embrace-Extend-Extinguish

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26902795 | 287 comments

I’ve switched to Fedora Core on my Linux machines, from someone who started out on Debian and used Ubuntu since it first came out.

I even made a Fedora WSL image for when I’m on Windows.

Reasons: Snap, primarily. Also prefer vanilla GNOME.

I thought I would be going back to Ubuntu with 20.04 but SNAP put me off so I've stayed with Linux Mint. This release looks like it's another step further away from what I prefer.