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My guess is that it's two things: To get developers to use Windows again and to get developers to use Azure for everything.

Making the barriers low for Azure is huge. They have such an advantage over Amazon and Google here. Google has no IDE to speak of. Amazon has no IDE, language(s), runtime, etc.

> Google has no IDE to speak of.

Not quite true; Android Studio has some tools to help you get a mobile backend onto Google's cloud.

Another way of saying it is that Amazon has every IDE, language, runtime, etc.

Do they need them? There are hundreds of free(dom) choices.

And all of those choices are utterly horrible (IDEs, not editors).

What makes you say that?

For backend developers, this is super smart. When I'm running an app on my phone or in my browser, I don't care if the brains reside on AWS, Google, Azure, Rackspace, etc...

For the front end, this probably won't have much effect. Developers go where the users are and there's very little excitement around Windows applications (win32 or universal). If keeping developers happy was all that important, then Linux would be the dominant desktop OS.

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