content: They basically realized the desktop market is shrinking and many devs are now developing for web/iOS/Android. Their stack is not fancy anymore. Now they're trying to get devs back, by porting MSSQL to Linux and making the dev version free, open sourcing .NET, copying Googles js based code editor and call it VS Code and offer a Linux version, porting Ubuntu userspace to Windows and such. It's too late for that to work.