Windows Server 2019 Officially Supports OpenSSH For the First Time (neowin.net)

Microsoft said in 2015 that it would build OpenSSH, a set of utilities that allow clients and servers to connect securely, into Windows, while also making contributions to its development. Neowin: Since then, the company has delivered on that promise in recent releases of Windows 10, being introduced as a feature-on-demand in version 1803. However, Windows Server hadn't received the feature until now, at least not in an officially supported way -- Windows Server version 1709 included it as a pre-release feature. But that's finally changed, as Microsoft this week revealed that Windows Server 2019, which was made available (again) in November, includes OpenSSH as a supported feature.

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Embrace, extend, extinguish is Microsoft culture (that is how it was described in a court case). They're already well on their way with that process, the Linux foundation opened a seat for Microsoft and VMware and a few weeks later seats that were offered free to community leaders got cancelled. They recently purchased the keynotes at big Linux conferences. They now have a Linux version that only works on Windows or Azure and can only be used with Visual Studio. I don't know if you realize how big it is to have a soon to be mainstream Linux distro that isn't open.