I work for Microsoft in our developer marketing org and can assure you this isn't marketing and Sam works for engineering organization. We're always looking for more ways to contribute to the open source community, but I totally understand in the end you will judge us by our actions and not what some marketing guy (like me) says here :).
thanks for reading.
I've had enough (not positive) interaction with dev marketing at ms to know how uncoordinated your departments are haha. I'm only judging that this was his only contribution on a new account.
Funny how the dev marketing just "swoop" in so we rest assured its Sam's original contribution.
@soared, sorry if I gave that impression. I'm actually a software engineer, enthusiast HN reader. I thought this was a good opportunity to join the community and share some work :-)
Not holding it against you, but generally you'll want to follow some sort of 80-20 or 90-10 rule. Share/contribute 90%, promote your [employer's] stuff 10%.
It is an organized effort as a campaign to be on HN within Microsoft dev marketing teams- win hearts and minds. See the defense from marketing within the company? That is validation for you right there.