I've been blogging here on and off for nine years. Whilst the frequency of update these days is somewhat down on its prime, what with it having to compete with a combination of Facebook and Twitter as well as my changing personal and professional circumstances, it's still here.
Long time readers will however note in this post a tone of real satisfaction with the news today that I'm leaving Microsoft to join a fresh and sparky new start-up which will allow me to finally combine my passion for emerging technologies and my twenty years of experience in the typically more staid accounting software arena.
I'll be joining Xero as their new UK MD in August and, frankly, I can't wait. That said, I will miss Microsoft. Some kool-kids still think that it's fashionable to knock Microsoft, indeed I've occasionally done that very thing on this blog down the years.
But having had the privilege of spending two years inside the business, I do see the company in quite a different light than before. And I doubt I'll ever work with more talented, driven and capable people as many of whom I've had the pleasure of working with here.
That it's the largest, most successful software business on the planet is neither a fluke nor the clichéd, ill-gotten result of its out-and-out desire to win (which in the past has cost it more than won), but that it succeeds in hiring some of the best talent around.
Long time readers will however note in this post a tone of real satisfaction with the news today that I'm leaving Microsoft to join a fresh and sparky new start-up which will allow me to finally combine my passion for emerging technologies and my twenty years of experience in the typically more staid accounting software arena.
I'll be joining Xero as their new UK MD in August and, frankly, I can't wait. That said, I will miss Microsoft. Some kool-kids still think that it's fashionable to knock Microsoft, indeed I've occasionally done that very thing on this blog down the years.
But having had the privilege of spending two years inside the business, I do see the company in quite a different light than before. And I doubt I'll ever work with more talented, driven and capable people as many of whom I've had the pleasure of working with here.
That it's the largest, most successful software business on the planet is neither a fluke nor the clichéd, ill-gotten result of its out-and-out desire to win (which in the past has cost it more than won), but that it succeeds in hiring some of the best talent around.