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The community has a long memory and your idea of ignoring Microsoft seems to be shared with others. Here’s a response to another of their blog posts called “Inside the OSS Lab” where Microsoft shares a view of an OSS team and their environment in an attempt to make inroads with the community:

‘Yeah, whatever. “Nice cool geeks and pretty Penguins”, but Microsoft is still a criminal monopolist and duplicitous in the extreme. Luckily, Microsoft is also irrelevant to my life, home and work included.’

Microsoft has a very long way to go with the olive branching, indeed.

Microsoft calls it “Open Source Day”…But…
=> “…since this was an internal event, we can’t share everything.”

Do we call that an oxymoron, contradiction or a divide by 0 error? :-)

The best thing Open Source people can do in response to Microsoft, is to ignore them and keep coding, promoting and help beginners. Pretend MS doesn’t exist, and ignore their recent “olive branching”.

Heck, even their generosity has its limits…
(See things like “open specification promise” that happens to leave a potential issue with GPL, releasing their proprietary document formats but its only really useful for “non-commercial use”, etc)