{"id":261,"date":"2006-02-24T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/john-howards-moving-to-redmond-good.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-09T19:19:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:19:04","slug":"john-howards-moving-to-redmond-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/john-howards-moving-to-redmond-good.htm","title":{"rendered":"John Howard&#8217;s moving to Redmond &#8211; Good luck John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--114077847246806799-->Yesterday evening, I bumped into Microsoft UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/jhoward\/\">John Howard<\/a> (not to be confused with the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/\">Australian Prime Minister<\/a>). For the last year and a half, I&#8217;ve known John as an &#8220;IT Professional Evangelist&#8221;, covering a variety of Windows infrastructure topics, but anyone who&#8217;s seen him present on virtualisation will understand it is one of his main interests.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the end of January, John had told me that he&#8217;s moving to Redmond to join &#8220;Corp&#8221; and take up a position as a Program Manager in the Windows Virtualisation team and whilst it wasn&#8217;t the biggest secret in the world, he did ask me to keep quiet until it was all confirmed. Well, it&#8217;s confirmed &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/jhoward\/archive\/2006\/02\/22\/420216.aspx\">John&#8217;s published the news on his blog<\/a>, so it&#8217;s okay for me to talk about it now!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big move, selling up in the UK and moving the whole family to North-West America, so I&#8217;d like to wish John all the very best for that, to say thanks for all the help and advice &#8211; and thanks for being a friendly face around Microsoft UK.<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t say who&#8217;s stepping into John&#8217;s shoes but I worked it out for myself at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/it-forum-05-highlights-part-1.htm\">a recent event<\/a> so it&#8217;s not that difficult. Purely by coincidence, I was idly wondering a couple of months back if there were any positions vacant in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/uk\/technet\/team\/evangelist.mspx\">IT professional technical evangelist team at Microsoft UK<\/a> (it sounds like a great job to me), but I didn&#8217;t see the post advertised externally and I&#8217;ve not been back at Fujitsu for long so I plan to be staying put for a while &#8211; anyway, I&#8217;m an unofficial Microsoft evangelist right here!<\/p>\n<p>As for John&#8217;s blog &#8211; a lot of what he&#8217;s doing will be Microsoft confidential; but he did say that, together with his colleagues <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/virtual_pc_guy\/\">Ben Armstrong<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mikester\/\">Mike Sterling<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mikekol\/\">Mike Kolitz<\/a> he&#8217;s hoping to start a Virtual Server team blog &#8211; along the lines of the Exchange Server team blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/exchange\/\">you had me at EHLO<\/a>) or the Internet Explorer team blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/\">IEBlog<\/a>). I guess that will be the space to watch and catch the latest details on the development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/microsoft-virtualisation-futures.htm\">Virtual Server hypervisor technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening, I bumped into Microsoft UK&#8217;s John Howard (not to be confused with the current Australian Prime Minister). 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