I've been really confused about the reaction around this. It feels like so many people are just waiting to find out how this is a scam, like this is still the same Microsoft. "Oooh, just you wait, they're tricking you with their PR".

There's just been too many things that I would never think would come to pass to think that opinion is fair, too many different faces. MS seems to have put more effort into going where the developers and customers are instead of trying to wrangle them in.