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No, Microsoft Is Not Buying Canonical

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Marius Nestor
Oct 5, 2015

Well, after some hard critics from Ubuntu users around the globe, the respective website had to contact both Microsoft and Canonical and ask them how do they respond to the rumors that Microsoft is in talks to buy Canonical, the company behind the world’s most popular free operating system.

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Marius Nestor

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