It's an attempt to bring back developer to windows platform. I personally don't know a single serious web developer using windows unless they are coding in .NET.
Are we talking about windows for their workstations or for their servers?
In the first case I see a LOT of devs using windows as main os, I can easily say the big part of them use it. My last job was in a full lamp 3yo startups and ironically I was the only one who had a second partition with linux on my laptop. All the other devs where on windows7/8 and only 2 on osx.
In case of server yes, usally you use windowsServer only if you use asp.net or maybe node.js. It however depens
Anyway if you want to just use Azure Websites it is really nice to have all those Sdks for visual studio.
If you mean front end, yes. The majority of front end devs are working on Macs and pushing to code to Linux servers. But there is still a ton of .Net activity on the backend and big enterprise. They're trying to bridge that gap and increase their share.
I'm in the learning and publishing industry. Our company has always been an MS stronghold and even here most greenfield projects are written in Node or other emerging technologies. I am a bit biased against Microsoft I have to admit, but I do believe they are on their way out of many industries. It's a down facing trend however you look at it.
In the first case I see a LOT of devs using windows as main os, I can easily say the big part of them use it. My last job was in a full lamp 3yo startups and ironically I was the only one who had a second partition with linux on my laptop. All the other devs where on windows7/8 and only 2 on osx.
In case of server yes, usally you use windowsServer only if you use asp.net or maybe node.js. It however depens
Anyway if you want to just use Azure Websites it is really nice to have all those Sdks for visual studio.