“Microsoft is like an anthill, and I’m an ant,” explained Scoble, the employee who always thinks about justifying his posts to CEO Ballmer. “I’m allowed to give the ant’s perspective on the world, but I’m not allowed to give the anthill’s perspective on the world.”
There are a lot of MSFT bloggers: they’re too sincere to be taken as a charm offensive, so I just take ’em for what they’re worth. Some of them are good reading.