It's still true (source: Microsoft engineer for 8 years, used vim and internal version of Unix tools). A lot of this has to do with the sheer size of many of M

It's still true (source: Microsoft engineer for 8 years, used vim and internal version of Unix tools). A lot of this has to do with the sheer size of many of Microsoft products' codebases. Visual Studio just can't handle projects with millions of lines of code, whereas vim + ctags elegantly handles the fragments of projects you build locally.