After something like 5 years on the MSN (now Windows Live) Messenger Team, I’m moving to a new role at Microsoft. Messenger is one of my favorite products in the world, the team is absolutely great to work with, and we’re working on what I think is our most exciting release ever,  but an opportunity came up that was just too good to ignore.

Starting next week, I’m taking a job as a (Software) Architect reporting to Joshua Goodman, who is BillG’s Technical Assistant and reports directly to the man himself.

Yeah. It’s pretty freaking sweet. I’m extremely excited. I’ll be working on all kinds of things across the whole company. It’s going to be an amazing period of learning and I hope to contribute to some wicked hot new stuff that will amaze and delight our customers. I can’t talk about anything publicly, but it’s some software that I for one would love to use.

Anyway, I’m starting the new job off this Sunday by heading to Vegas to attend MIX07. I’ve worked a ton on clients, a ton on peer-to-peer apps, a bit on servers, but basically none on web apps, so I need to ramp up quickly there.

w00t!!!~!1!!!~one!~@~~!