What are you referring to? Microsoft’s developer tools are top notch. I’d pick visual studio over Xcode any day of the week - Xcode is so crazy buggy that I don’t know how anyone at Apple gets work done on it. And VSCode is probably the most popular ide on the planet.

I'm sure they could do more, but ...

They own GitHub, they make Visual Studio Code, they made C#/.NET open-source and cross-platform, they added Linux support to Windows (twice), and they created WinGet, just off the top of my head.

Between GitHub, VS Code, and TypeScript it is hard to make the case Microsoft doesn’t focus on developers as a segment.

Developers developers developers developers

Stuff like this?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

It’s not a good sign if they have the choice to use different tools. But if microsoft can make sure they don’t have a choice it’s a neutral sign!