I concur. While I've never met him, he's almost certainly got that thousand-yard stare that pierces through to the heart of your crazy ideas (from "Let's spend several billion dollars on a company that does crappy sales software!" to "Why don't we put a Turing-equivalent cartoon paperclip on the bottom right hand corner of everyone's screen?"). This guy has Been Around the Fucking Block and deserves a shot at Microsoft CEO, he's in research and he's psychic about bullshit.

I would pay folding money to buy a ringside seat at the single combat that finally decides who gets to run Microsoft, because there's just no other way it's going to happen without causing a mass exodus of everyone who's still good working there. I would also put a significant side-bet on this guy, because he's not a biz guy or a sales guy or a marketroid, he's in research and knows how to fight dirty.