I'm glad for the sake of smaller developers and Xbox gamers that Microsoft is now paying attention on this front. However, I don't think we should forget so easily that they're only making a big show now because they were forced into it. It seems obvious to me that they rushed this new program together late in the game, perhaps when it became apparent that many small developers were putting the XO last in terms of platform importance. The people running the Xbox program dropped the ball on several fronts at the start of this generation and this is one of them.
Still, if they really do get their act together, this will be a blip on the radar. I know we have a lot of anti-small business gamers on these forums, which is just crazy to me, but I very much like when the big corporations aren't the only ones getting love. I hope for the sake of everyone that the people running Microsoft's new "indie" (I loathe that term) program are sincere and that they get things turned around for good.
