Ask HN: Microsoft PR machine unleashed on HN?

Maybe it was, maybe not. Microsoft released a bunch of news today, and people are genuinely really excited about it, as far as the comments tell me.

They may be fairly quiet on HN, but ASP.NET and C# developers are more numerous than Python, PHP, and Ruby combined.

Because "Connect(); //2015" is streaming live on https://channel9.msdn.com/ ?

Because Microsoft is doing a developer's conference, and that's the kind of thing that generates a lot of HN-interesting news at any time.

During WWDC, HN gets dominated by Apple stories. During I/O, lots of Google stories.