I had the same thought too. I wonder if this his role at Microsoft now? Kind of a human institutional knowledge repository, plus a kind of brand ambassador to t

I had the same thought too. I wonder if this his role at Microsoft now? Kind of a human institutional knowledge repository, plus a kind of brand ambassador to the developer community, plus mentor to younger engineers, plus chronicler. I hope he keeps going, no doubt he could choose to finish up whenever he wants to.