This reminded me of a slashdot post about
Microsoft's problems recruiting good employees. Of course /. never met an anti-Microsoft story it didn't like, so keep that in mind.
As Kraus was quoted in jmiller's article, the greatest prospects are likely talking to Google. A few years ago Google was the internet's best kept secret; it was "cool". Now that "coolness" is filtering on down to average internet users.
Google is still pretty lean and agile where as Microsoft seems to be this behemoth that is merely chasing trends. I guess MSN's products are OK, but you would think that after throwing a billion dollars at it, they would be ahead by now.