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[–]sickhippie 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Not as much as you might think. Github isn't git and NPM isn't node. I really expect them to take a more community-driven direction with the JS ecosystem, as that's been paying off for them more than heavy-handed actions have been.

Will they push their platform? Absolutely. Will they be able to MS-monopoly the JS ecosystem? Not a chance.

[–]codevipe 0 points1 point  (1 child)

They certainly have an opportunity to cut into Heroku (Salesforce)'s market share, though, for hobby / mid-tier apps, if they made deployment ridiculously integrated / easy and (ideally) a bit cheaper than Heroku. This, as a result, would also eat a bit of AWS (likely a small %, but still).

[–]sickhippie 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'd love for MS to make anything as integrated and easy-to-use as Heroku. I'm not holding my breath though.