Obsidian: Microsoft looking to extern-publish (mid-to-large size) independent studios

[darkknightkryta]

They would probably prefer to die in 2 years rather then now though if they had no other choice.  

At lest MS would be paying their wages until then.  And maybe by that time a new opening would have emerged.

Depends.  When you throw your entire company into a Microsoft project, you're pretty much stuck.  When they cut your funding, you die.  You're better off signing with someone else who doesn't have a history of leaving studios to die.