I am a software developer at Microsoft. During the past 6 years I've worked on IronPython where I was the lead developer and helped design and implement the Dynamic Language Runtime to make it easier to bring dynamic languages to .NET and consume those languages from staticly typed languages. More recently I've been working on Python Tools for Visual Studio for adding support developing against any Python distribution in Visual Studio. My team also is looking at other great ways to expose Windows developers to Python.