[pingec]

Does anyone else get the impression that MS shifted a lot of its attention to web developers?

There is an incredible amount of web technologies and dev tools coming from ms that are being presented at Build 2014. In fact so many that I'm having a hard time keeping up...

[drawkbox]

Their new OS in a sense is Azure, they want developers of all platforms to run on their cloud. All of these tools have an easy tie to Azure which isn't bad, but the lock-in is happening farther up at the service level now. Web developers are huge in that area.

[gol706]

They did offer an olive branch as far as Azure lock-in by releasing some of the Azure components (Mobile Services and the Azure Pack) to download and run in your own environment. That said some of those pieces require a pretty high overhead.

As with most Microsoft stuff, you get a great fully integrated story if you use their whole stack, but if you want to swap one one piece it falls apart a little. My clients have compliance issues that make cloud providers hard to use so it's disappointing that I can't really use all this coon new stuff.

[outside1234]

This is an industry shift in my opinion. People are sick of writing the same app three times and it wouldn't surprise me to see many more hybrid apps in the next year.

[prezjordan]

Where does it say that this was made by MS?

[outside1234]

the first comment. the project is lead by MS but takes community pull requests.