There are a lot more Conservatives here at MS than you would imagine. Most just keep a low profile...
I served for two years in the Microsoft trenches. I know there are Conservatives there, but, as is always the case, you never hear a peep out of them - which, I guess, is sort of the point. It's the Lefties that make the most noise.
Amusingly enough, it's also the Leftie engineers that have the greater propensity for designing enormous, needlessly complex data structures and inheritance hierarchies, and then debating them in design review meetings for as long as possible before having to actually sit down and build them. :)
(I still live in Redmond, btw, in case you wanna hang sometime.)