I got this from friend earlier today He was gloating that Linux is admitted to be greater than Windows. My response is the top entry.

What these articles really say is that the products have been evolving toward each other over the years. Open source allows greater development flexibility. Of course, it also creates vulnerabilities when a feature has not been fully vetted. Adopt at your own risk.
I wonder whether Apple will get on the bandwagon also and finally allow a unified system that works on all platforms. If so, that will turn product competition into a hardware race.
New apps would be exchangeable between systems.
If you look at the guts of machines, they are nearly all interchangeable parts already.
If you look at the history of Microsoft, they have never been slow to adopt improvements, even if they had to buy out the competition to get them in order to avoid copyright suits. Being open source, they do not even have to buy Linux.   

Yep, Microsoft has been open sourcing many of their own products. The past several years have been a major transition for Microsoft. Here's an article on the Windows Subsystem For Linux:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18534687/microsoft-windows-10-linux-kernel-feature

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/18/21262103/microsoft-open-source-linux-history-wrong-statement