So I looked at the VSCode Ansible plugin and it says it is authored by "Microsoft"[1], but the repository is owned by a Github organization called "Visual Studio China"[2] and the plugin identifier is "vscoss.vscode-ansible", when other Microsoft plugins usually has identifiers in the "ms-vscode" namespace (for example the TSLint and C/C++ extensions) or "ms-vscode-remote" or some similar namespace starting with "ms".
So why is this ansible plugin such an outlier? How can I be sure that this plugin is actually authored by Microsoft and not by some other entity?
Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
Edit: Ok so if you click the name "Microsoft" in the vscode marketplace it will take you to a list of Microsoft authored plugins, which I guess means the organization name in the marketplace is verified somehow. So yes, I was just being paranoid.
[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscoss.v...
[2] https://github.com/VSChina/vscode-ansible