They seem to have had that strategy for a very long time -- entice developers to lock in end users.  It worked quite well obviously, but I myself still find a good REPL, solid CLI tools, and fully open source code all the way down to the BIOS even more enticing.<p>I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing what Microsoft&#x27;s &quot;next&quot; is; they&#x27;ve tried a lot of &quot;nexts&quot; that didn&#x27;t always pan out.