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Subject: RE: From product manager to product planner
Author: "John Baird"
Posted: 2006/01/31 20:12:09
 
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From: profox-bounces (at) leafe .DO.T com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf
Of MB Software Solutions
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:23 PM
To: profox (at) leafe .DO.T com
Subject: Re: From product manager to product planner

Ken Levy wrote:

>>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
>
>

Best of luck in your new endeavor, Ken. I'm sure we all wish you well as
well as look forward to working with the next man to lead VFP.

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Michael J. Babcock, MCP
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