I am not saying this was the reason, but it is suspicious that the Munich Linux project was dropped, after Microsoft moved their headquarters back into Munich.

And the reasons given were made up. The recommendation written by Accenture claimed that "users weren't satisfied" while a poll from a newspaper showed that most users were indeed satisfied

Bribery can also work. I'm not saying that this is what they have done in Germany, but in Romania it was a big scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corrupti...

Embrace, extend, extinguish.