Real leverage looks like all of us banding together to boycott Microsoft's most profitable income streams. Not GitHub. But cloud services like Azure, and Office, gaming, etc:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/these-2-revenue-streams-acco...
It's about making unilateral ensh*ttification decisions like this so expensive for parent companies that they become unthinkable. The board and investors sometimes need to be reminded how expensive these decisions really are.
We've all seen stock prices tank by half in one day since the Dot Bomb. A weak signal starts a big wave in this age of algorithmic trading.
A high-profile company publicly switching to AWS/GCP to avoid eating MS's sh@t sends a strong signal.
More importantly, after everything that MS has put us through over the decades, divesting is FUN! :-)