I want this to be a good thing. I probably still have some Ballmer-induced "PTSD", so I approach these things with extra skepticism (even though I like the rece

I want this to be a good thing. I probably still have some Ballmer-induced "PTSD", so I approach these things with extra skepticism (even though I like the recent changes seen at MS). More choices often means a better ecosystem. More kids hacking is a good thing. One problem that I see is that Broadcomm and peripheral makers will continue to release binary-only blobs/drivers, and the MSVS based toolchain could start to be the only way to do some of the really cool things. ie a few "killer" apps will done up and those will only be accessible on the Win/MSVS (free-as-in-bait) platform. Linux will again be relegated to the kind of blind-reverse-engineering, playing catchup, and being a second place late finisher; which we have all seen, and continue to see today. Another is that educators at the lower level will take the "easy/safe/familiar" route and teach Windows exclusively, as is the case today even into college.