If you haven't seen much change in the last decade, maybe you've spent your time stuck at the SSMS console and really haven't taken a look at the software and hardware changes outside of your viewpoint.

Git and Mercurial have changed source control. GitHub is replacing SourceForge. There's a huge growth in OSS data tools and APIs. There's interesting developments like IPython notebooks. There's a large number of developers that have not developed for a Microsoft platform.