> so I'm having trouble figuring why they'd bother giving away VS to Mac users without being forced to run on Azure in production. It's the trickle up theory o

> so I'm having trouble figuring why they'd bother giving away VS to Mac users without being forced to run on Azure in production. It's the trickle up theory of modern development. Get folks using your languages and tools, and if you make it easy to integrate with your cloud services in those tools, that's where the revenue comes in. It's probably an interesting number how much revenue is generated by various cloud providers for folks who just forgot to shut down their VM