Scoble sees a death march, thinks it's progress:

I might be arrogant, but I can't take credit for making Microsoft good for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley again, sorry. I give all that credit to the folks over on the .NET team who've been pulling late nights lately to ship the next version. If there's a reason that it's OK to use .NET to start companies it's because the VC'ers are seeing that the next version of .NET rocks. Is that arrogant for me to say? Well, ask guys like Max who are betting their futures on it.

Not arrogant, uninformed. If the .NET team is consistently pulling late nights to hit a release date, then you have a death march on your hands. Why is that a problem? Well, you watch while half the team melts after it decides that it really doesn't need that kind of crap anymore :)