Comment by fuzzfactor

At the same time I think some of the most brilliant things to come from Microsoft are products of individual initiative, and when the project ends up compromised for some reason I get the idea that it's some kind of institutional higher-ups that do the damage after the fact.

Maybe just some residual instinct left over from times past when more people like Ballmer were still prominent, and they were not as user-enabling as today in some ways?