Microsoft shipped development tools with it's OS for as long as I can remember using them. Typically tools with very low barriers to entry too, they just worked

Microsoft shipped development tools with it's OS for as long as I can remember using them. Typically tools with very low barriers to entry too, they just worked out of the box and usually came with sample code. DOS shipped with QBasic, Windows 98+ shipped with VBScript. Win 98 even included a small web server with ASP support and databases via Access. Not to mention Visual Basic, which yes was technically not free but I don't remember it having meaningful copy protection and pirate copies were handed around in geek circles like photoshop is today. There were also a bunch of third party drag and drop game creation tools available, many of which were scriptable in some capacity.