&gt; Around this time, the core development team was reformed in India rather than Redmond and some of the key Softway developers moved on to other projects like Monad (PowerShell) or left Microsoft.<p>This is indeed very sad. It seems like every project shipped overseas suffers the same fate. When will we ever learn that you can&#x27;t &quot;leverage the salary disparity&quot; - you don&#x27;t outsource your engineers when your core competency is engineering.