There should be an intense, almost religious push internally to make Scott Guthrie the new CEO. Not likely I know, but platforms that developers depend on such

There should be an intense, almost religious push internally to make Scott Guthrie the new CEO. Not likely I know, but platforms that developers depend on such as Windows, Windows Phone, .NET, Azure etc - should be something he runs. The Microsoft dev community has deep respect for and a strong relationship with very few people and he is far and above the most central of those figures. The communal touch points that DE folks used to be so good at are gone now, I have about 5 or 6 close friends in my region all of whom are all like myself, independent consultants using MS stack, none of us have heard from our DE in years. User group support has vanished, local meetups where the DE will come show us and teach us stuff used to happen at least every quarter and even more often - have not seen one in years. What I do see are sales people who are only interested in talking to me if I can push Sharepoint Enterprise into a large company. Nevermind that it does not make sense, nevermind that developers by and large despise Sharepoint, that is what matters right now to them. It should be the other way around. Also, if they are going to dangle money out there as an incentive to developers to build Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps, it should be incentive, not token. You want me to stop working and build something great - give me a way to propose it and a budget and if Redmond thinks the idea is good, fund it. Not some 5K in advanced revenue shit. There are tens of thousands of highly talented developers who love the Microsoft stack who would build amazing new experiences for Windows and Windows Phone if someone could help them do so and the current incentives are just laughable. iOS and Android are lotteries that could let me win big, if I am going to gamble my future I am going to do it there. But if Microsoft created an incubator system that let me propose an idea, get it funded and guide me through the process and ultimately help to promote the app - they would have developers fighting to get in.