I know that Microsoft isn't directly developing Minecraft but they're funding and helping Mojang survive and continue to bring us awesome Minecraft stuff. Have they done a good job since they picked up the company?
I think that they are doing a good job. My youngest son loves to play Minecraft with his friends and always has fun on the different servers that they play on. As far as I know they have never really had any issues when they play.
I think they are experimenting with the minecraft brand. And I am guessing they may find out where this leads them.
I think they stop funding Minecraft since the game losses in the market. There are lots of new games yearly. Minecraft is totally left behind because of that.
I think microsoft has invested much into the minecraft. And seems to be getting a lot out of the code. I hope they extend this to say some other games and make fork of minecraft for other games.