If they try this it will likely fail very hard, because one of the selling point of it is that it's a thin IDE. But this means most vscode users can easily swi

If they try this it will likely fail very hard, because one of the selling point of it is that it's a thin IDE. But this means most vscode users can easily switch away, e.g. to sublime. Sure there is the plugin ecosystem, but at least how plugins work currently you don't want to install many of them for security reasons/trust. And in my experience some of the best plugins are not only not from MS but they provide features vscode already roughly supports but in a lacking way. MS might have some luck with remote dev features (which are also not in the open source version). But they will have a hard time on this vector, because I have seen upcomming new IDEs which do handles that better in ways I'm not sure vscode will be able to beat or get on-par with. This leave their remote in-browser IDE dev setup thingy in colaboration with GitHub, that is a killer feature. But IMHO is one of this things which only will become a main selling point if people _only_ use this environment. But it's a in-browser interface so not OS specific so probably not so useful to lock people in.