>From my blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy
After working as a product manager in the developer division for the
past 4.5 years, I've decided to accept an offer to work in a new
position at Microsoft. Starting in March, I will be a product planner
working on developer community efforts in a new group within the Windows
Live division.
I'll definitely miss the regular interaction with VFP team members and
the great Visual FoxPro community. I've also had great experiences
working with the WebData XML team on the XML tools story for Visual
Studio 2005, doing some community work with the VB team, and helping
with content for Channel 9 both in front of and behind the camera. I
expect to continue to do interviews and be interviewed for Channel 9
from time to time ongoing since it is such a great site for community
efforts and transparency.
The Visual FoxPro Roadmap plans will remain the same. Some of my regular
VFP related efforts will be taken over by various members of the VFP
team. VS Data program manager Milind Lele, who worked on SP1 for VFP 9.0
and spoke at the Southwest Fox 2005 conference, has been responsible for
driving the Sedna project since last year. Milind will also be
responsible for SP2 for VFP 9.0 which planned for release 2Q 2007. Alan
Griver, group manager for the VS Data team which includes the VFP team,
will continue to manage all of the existing plans outlined in the VFP
Roadmap. In the next few days, Milind will be posting his first letter
on the VFP developer center and continue to post a new letter monthly
with news from the VFP team. Additional related news can be found on the
VS Data Team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata. VFP team members will
be attending some of the many VFP events this year. I plan to attend the
Southwest Fox 2006 conference in Phoenix this October.
I can't say much about my new role just yet. To get an idea of just some
of the developer centric things I'll be working on in the Windows Live
team, check out the recent 21 minute video by Robert Scoble on Channel 9
interviewing my new manager, Windows Live group product planner Scott
Swanson (MSN Messenger APIs:
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=144318#144318). Over the
next few weeks, I'll be posting additional news on what the VFP team is
working. Later I'll be talking more about my new activities with Windows
Live once I get started there.
Ken Levy
Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro
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