I can only guess but I think Big Scott, lesser Scott and Julia will have a meeting soon. The .NET community is at a boiling point and they should really avoid a community which takes dev productivity in their own hands. Because that is the garantueed end of visual studio.

sounds like .NET is almost the kind of thing I'd use then, because in a world without Visual Studio, I might not be punished for choosing to use .NET but not VS

I was amazed they'd try something new like cloud. I thought they will stick to the desktop and and MS Office until someone will snatch it from their dead cold hands. But Ballmer went and Nadella came. I still think that the company has a lot of Ballmers hidden in a lot of places, waiting for the opportunity to pull the breaks if they sniff that something interesting might happen.