That is exactly the sort of management that has landed many a company in hot mater before, including Microsoft.
Whether the managers remain ignorant by malice of incompetence is irrelevant. Directing your subordinate to do something that they should reasonably know would break the law or be anticompetitive is still illegal.
The see no evil defense is a piss poor defense that is more likely going to be used to show you knew exactly what was going on.
There isn't the remotest chance that any of this is anticompetitive in a legal sense. Microsoft doesn't have anything close to a monopoly on dev tooling or text editors.
Whether the managers remain ignorant by malice of incompetence is irrelevant. Directing your subordinate to do something that they should reasonably know would break the law or be anticompetitive is still illegal.
The see no evil defense is a piss poor defense that is more likely going to be used to show you knew exactly what was going on.