Any platform can win if they win the developers and thus a thriving platform. Microsoft has been repelling developers for the past decade but most recently it

Any platform can win if they win the developers and thus a thriving platform. Microsoft has been repelling developers for the past decade but most recently it is now attracting them with more open broad market technologies. They built their platforms/empire on developers first originally, every platform since has also done this. The signals out of the new Microsoft seems to be old school developer love. They are pushing people to their new 'OS' Azure, higher up the stack, and their tools push you in that way. But they are no longer religious about the language, platform, code, etc. This supports their tools, cloud and ultimately platform. But they have to reconvince developers that they won't grow distance again.