MS did a shift like that already. The shift from MS-DOS to NT was transparent to the vast majority of people to the point that most people didn’t realize they were two different OSes.

I don’t see why they couldn’t do it again. NTVDM was similar in concept to what wine does. Imagine if MS actively contributed to wine, or a wine like project.

Let’s give them credit. Maybe their first experience was installing Gentoo, which is when Windows is better.

Both can be true. He could have done it, and the cops could have planted evidence.