Microsoft is still here and still Microsofting. They've had a few setbacks to total dominance. They fumbled the mobile ball and found that they couldn't compete against Linux and open source, which enable new forms of computing at the largest (cloud) and smallest (embedded/Raspberry Pi) scales that don't fit with their business model.
So they successfully pivot to co-opting the dev stack used in the open source world. That's their play with Azure, WSL, Visual Studio Code, and the GitHub and npm acquisitions: to make it impossible to do webdev on an open source stack without MSFT involvement, and hey, why not try out these other great MSFT products and services while you're at it?
It's a clever play. But they're not dead, irrelevant, or your friend.
So they successfully pivot to co-opting the dev stack used in the open source world. That's their play with Azure, WSL, Visual Studio Code, and the GitHub and npm acquisitions: to make it impossible to do webdev on an open source stack without MSFT involvement, and hey, why not try out these other great MSFT products and services while you're at it?
It's a clever play. But they're not dead, irrelevant, or your friend.