Embracing, perhaps; extinguishing seems unlikely, given Microsoft's recent support of R in the likes of SQL Server and PowerBI.

Comments like this predictably derail the discussion without adding anything to it. Please don't do this here.

Your evidence for this is... ?

Because years ago MS used to do stuff like this therefore they must still be planning to do stuff like this.

That makes no sense actually.

So based on this, we should still hold Germany accountable for the holocaust...got it.