There is no VC market for Microsoft anymore
Balmer says, "Developers, developers, ..." Microsoft has a long history of screwing their partners. There is no VC market in the Microsoft space, because there is little way to have a successful medium to large company. The VC market is in Linux/Android and Apple, because they are far better partners.
Microsoft is the closed garden, in comparison, Apple is open and Linux/Android are the open sky.
If Microsoft can't do it all in house, they are going to fail. Reminds me of General Motors of 5 years ago really.