Too bad this is such a short and content-less article. I was hoping for more insights into how MS manages to run the best basic research lab in computer science in the world, while being hopelessly clueless in their corporate life.
I found the axes he laid out at the beginning of the article to be an interesting way to think about different research jobs. The rest of the article is about the choices made by MSR generally and MSR Silicon Valley in particular along those axes.
I will use unshortened links in the future.
I meant the marketing/propaganda folks, who can certainly be counted upon to attempt to sway popular opinion in Microsoft's favor through targeted posting on a popular, high-traffic forum with educated readership.