It's a different world and company in 2018. I mean, could you imagine the diversity initiatives in 2000? A very large part of our economy is embracing a positio

It's a different world and company in 2018. I mean, could you imagine the diversity initiatives in 2000? A very large part of our economy is embracing a position of collaboration, choice, empowerment, user experience, etc. The mentality that "a rising tide lifts all boats" is no longer limited to Nintendo(I realize the irony when we look into indie support from previous generations). I agree entirely though that I hope this is a long lasting change. Teams within Microsoft have been doing amazing work for a LONG time, and now more people are being exposed to that. I also hope the new Microsoft is here to stay. I few things I find impressive: * Event Tracing for Windows * Azure engineering(their document store is built on their block store and is all exposed to developers; it's an impressive system from an API standpoint IMHO) * Language services across TypeScript, C#, and F#. World class tooling that's nearly unparalleled * Research and implementations for highly performant static analysis including flow control * Tango white paper * SeaDragon * Holo Lens * TypeScript * VSCode * Roslyn * Dotnet * Entity Framework * Powershell; this thing is an impressive novelty whether you get along with it or not * Etc and so on