> Even early in its history, Microsoft was famous for merging these together into a single role: "developer". No. Microsoft was famous for having a role called

> Even early in its history, Microsoft was famous for merging these together into a single role: "developer". No. Microsoft was famous for having a role called Software Development Engineer in Test. > Remember Steve Balmer chanting "Developers, developers, developers" (in about 2000)? That's why. No. Ballmer's chant was about 3rd party developers.