[manishsharan]

Do you remember that "developers developers developers .." bit. Can you recall any other executive of a multi-billion corp who was that passionate about developers? I appreciated a executive who was that passionate about third party developers. Also, he was part of a founding team that built a software giant ! I am a *NIX/Java guy but I appreciate Microsoft SDKs and Tool sets. Ballmer has not been as successful as hoped , but he is ok in my book.

[angersock]

Yep. It's pretty clear that of the big houses out there, only Microsoft really gives two shits about every developer, ninja rockstar or punchclock.