I think that if microsoft will fix the eula and then just do updates every 6 months or so. minecraft will do vary well. even better if PC Xbox cross servers become easily done.
well it has been a sad 2 months for minecraft. the Eula damaged minecraft economy. then bukkit hurt the community. then microsoft. and now this. almost everthing about minecraft has gone wrong.
It could be fun if they add a standardized energy system so that mods would not have to make up there own like M.J. from buildcraft or E.U . from IC2. It could be so helpfull to energy mods.
If they sell it will be disastrous to small server owners like me. I am just starting a server and if this goes threw the investment of hundreds of hours it takes to set up a heavy plugin server will be wasted. this comes at one of the worst times possible because of the bukkit troubles. i pray that they will not sell out.