[seanmcdirmid]

Most Microsoft employees are Microsoft shareholders, so we have an interest in higher stock prices also.

[davidgerard]

How's that felt over the past decade?

[seanmcdirmid]

I've only been in for 5+ years, and I don't look at my stock so closely, it has traveled a bit up and down, nothing to think much about.

The way American/Chinese taxes work, actually, I'm annoyed to get stock at all as compensation and wish it would just come in as salary.