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\"MVP\"I’ve just heard that my Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award nomination for 2009 was successful and I can now say I’m an MVP for Virtual Machine technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who reads, links to and comments on this blog as, without your support, I wouldn’t write this stuff and therefore wouldn’t be getting the recognition from Microsoft that I have.<\/p>\n

For those of you who skip over the Microsoft-focused content, don’t worry – it doesn’t mean that it will all be Microsoft from now on – I’ll still continue to write about whatever flavour of technology I find interesting at any given time, and I’ll still be trying to remain objective! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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