I've seen a lot of people sharing similar sentiments just because it's Microsoft executives. These executives came up through engineering. These are not MBA's

I've seen a lot of people sharing similar sentiments just because it's Microsoft executives. These executives came up through engineering. These are not MBA's. Russinovich famously founded Winternals (now Sysinternals), and got bought by Microsoft. Building tools for the OS that the OS vendor didn't think to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals Scott Hanselman is similarly prolific: https://www.hanselman.com/about/ https://www.hanselman.com/about/ These are not faceless execs, if you follow the company. These are the people who advocate for the real and good stuff.