Here&#x27;s why their Linux ports, at least for open-source won&#x27;t necessarily become second class... if they&#x27;re used and popular with developers... that&#x27;s it.<p>The DevOps trend, and developer mindshare is paramount regarding their cloud initiatives... Azure AD and Office 365 will keep things floating, but only Azure as a whole will keep it alive beyond XBox...<p>Microsoft is very good at tracking and keeping with developer mindshare, as well as adapting.  They&#x27;re also a large corporation with many nooks and crannies, so there are exceptions to everything.  The change lately is the acceptance that windows is waning... and they have to shore up other areas even at the cost of windows for the larger company to survive... this is a colossal shift that can&#x27;t be underestimated.<p>As a result initiatives that may have never seen the light of day around .Net as a whole, VS Code (with great go and node support), and a slew of other nice things coming from MS would never have seen the light of day.  I am surprised how much I like using VS Code on OSX, I switched from Webstorm and Sublime, even with some rough edges in es6&#x2F;7 syntax support.  DNX and .Net Core stuff has me considering .Net and Mono again when I&#x27;d all but written them off.<p>I was forced to work with Azure late last year, and after writing some simpler wrappers using some of their APIs have to admit that I liked using them more than AWS.  It&#x27;s really interesting that the less I rely on MS, the more I appreciate the work they&#x27;ve put out there.