In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft is about to ink a deal with Novell to create technology that will allow Windows users to put Novell’s Suse Linux on a Windows desktop.This stunning news out of Redmond, Washington and Waltham, Massachusetts has the gurus of instant analysis scrambling for an explanation.Well, far be it from InfoWorld not to play the game as well, so here are three possible reasons why Microsoft is doing the deal. Scenario one: Looking to the future and seeing the proverbial handwriting on the wall, this stops the bleeding of Windows to Linux desktops. For those companies and individual users that chose Windows with some reluctance but felt Linux still wasn’t 100 percent ready for the desktop, they can now choose Windows without the pain and guilt.Microsoft may also believe it will make for happier and more loyal customers who will not be looking to ditch Windows at the first opportunity. And for those who would ditch Windows now for Linux, they can have the best of both worlds. Windows may have its detractors and its problems but face it, it is still a powerful OS.Scenario two: Did the desktop OEMs push Microsoft toward this deal? More of their customers want Linux and so the PC manufacturers want this technology so they can give them both. Perhaps, despite the lawsuits of the past, the OEMs make money off Windows and they make zilch, as we used to say, from putting Linux on the desktop.Scenario three: The most intriguing possibility of all. Did increasing sales of Apple Macintosh which now has Intel inside and uses OS X which is a form of Unix which is the parent of Linux, have anything to do with this decision. Stay tuned. Technology Industry