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No. They just plan to use developer tools (chrome based browser + vstudio) to push their one-push-publish-to-cloud.

embrace (chromium), extend (dev tool features that will only work with vsStudio but is awesome), extinguish (tool now only work with vsstudio when serving from azure because they are moving faster than open standards.)

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I don't think this is happening, Visual Studio is basically a legacy product at this point. Still developed and maintained, but not a major focus for MS, and they want to push Azure adoption as much as possible so I don't think we'll see IDE lock in like you're talking about.

What do you mean? VS is literally the only Microsoft product that shows up here on HN every other week!

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