Jeremy Wright, one the main dudes in my blogosphere, hits this one out of the park.

Scoble nailed it: Microsoft simply isnÂ’t thrilling me anymore. They used to. IÂ’ll still happily defend Microsoft when the time is right, will evangelize dozens of products to the right people and so forth. But itÂ’s less joyful, and slightly more forced, than it used to be.

Bingo! This is how I feel. Although I have been antagonistic towards Microsoft over my professional career, there was still something cool happening there.
Scoble says that there are cool things and strategic hires still occurring. [here]
But Scoble…how will you thrill us?
Hugh has some comments on this… [here]
TDavid weighs in here.