Leaving Microsoft

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I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about the right title for this post. Steve Marx was clever with Career vNext, Sriram Krishnan waxed poetic with On Leaving Microsoft, and Brad Abrams just came out and talked about My Last Day at Microsoft. Yet no matter how it’s phrased it comes down to one thing: leaving Microsoft.

I can honestly say that I never thought this day would come. Working for Microsoft has been a dream come true – brilliant colleagues, interesting opportunities, and inspiring technologies. In particular, I’ve had a blast working on Windows Azure. I never envisaged that a little project I worked on in 2008 would lead me to Redmond and all the interesting things I’ve done over the last several years.

Fortunately for me (and I hope for you), I am not going far from Windows Azure. I’ll share more details soon but for now I’ll just say that I’m going “to put money where my mouth is” and help companies build real solutions on Windows Azure. This is going to be an amazing year for Windows Azure and I plan to push it to the limit!

Don’t hesitate to reach out to me – I’d love to stay in touch.

Thanks for the ride!

  • http://www.marcelmeijer.net Marcel Meijer

    Darn! Well, good luck in your Career vNext.
    It was a pleasure to see and meet you!
    Marcel

  • http://www.codebetttercom/glennblock Glenn Block

    Congrats! It has been awesome getting to know you personally, travel different places, and work with you on the node efforts. I also appreciate your advice and support. Good luck in the new role!

  • http://brianloesgen.com Brian Loesgen

    Wade, thanks for all your contributions, I look forward to seeing what’s next, good luck with the next step!

    Brian

  • http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com Roger Jennings

    Hi, Wade,

    Best of luck with your new endeavors. I’ve enjoyed your Cloud Cover videos and blog posts.

    Glad to hear you’re staying in the Azure arena.

    Cheers,

    –rj

  • CSKR

    Good luck for your future Wade. Hope to see you working more on Windows Azure…

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci Vittorio Bertocci

    It’s been an honor, sir! As mentioned: wherever you’ll go, it will be a success. Don’t be a stranger!

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly Bruno Terkaly

    Best of luck, my friend. The world has been made better with your awesome work. I am sure that will continue.

  • http://akarshseggemu.blogspot.in Akarsh Seggemu

    All the best Wade Wegner for your future in Career vNext.
    your tutorials on azure & wp7 was awesome and it helped me a lot.
    In fact, i made azure & wp7 as my graduation final year project
    for the year 2012 after getting inspiration to develop azure based wp7 app by your videos.

    Have a good experience a head

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel Brian Keller

    Wow, what a bummer! I will miss our conversations and sharing an office wall with you, my friend. We still need to catch up over some home brews so hopefully we can find time for that before you head east.

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/jennifer Jennifer Marsman

    It’s been awesome working with you, Wade! I look forward to seeing what you do next. :)

  • Robert Green

    It has been a pleasure working with you and getting to know you. We will miss you Wade.

  • http://brucemcmillank3.wordpress.com Bruce

    Whats this another CH9 cloud cover presenter making a break for it.

    Something we dont know about ??

    B….

  • http://colinbowerwn.com Colin Bowern

    Best of luck on next steps Wade!

  • Jones Pavan

    I liked vNext better :-) . Best of luck Wade and stay in touch!!

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/jspark Joong Suk

    Many thanks for your contribution. I hope you always be shine wherever you are.

  • OlafC

    best of luck! a shame for msft though….

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  • Katrien De Graeve

    Best of luck, great to have had the opportunity to work with you. Looking forward to reading your next steps.

  • http://patriekvandorp.net Patriek van Dorp

    Wow! I’ve been offline for a couple of days and look what happens…

    This is a real surpise to us all. I guess it’s a good sign that all you Microsoft Windows Azure gurus are running of to start working on Azure commercially. This means it’s really taking off now :) .

    Well, I wish you all the best and I’m sure we’ll meet again somewhere. It’s a small world after all.

    Regards,

    Patriek

  • http://www.ellisteam.net Ike Ellis

    Thanks for all of your hard work on behalf of the MVP community!

  • http://linxter.com Jason Milgram

    Wade, best of luck in your next endeavor!

  • http://www.hammadrajjoub.net Hammad Rajjoub

    Hi Wade,

    It was a pleasure working with you.

    I wish you all the best for your next role/venture.

    cheers
    //hr/

  • http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/ Steef-Jan Wiggers

    Thanks for your contributions and good luck with your next step in your carreer. We’ll keep in touch.

    Cheers,

    Steef-Jan

  • http://www.paraleap.com Igor Papirov

    Good luck Wade! Was pleasure meeting you in Chicago during Azure presentations and hope you do well in your next endeavor.

  • http:/blogs.msdn.com/ryancrawcour Ryan CrawCour

    been an honor sir! your contributions to Azure will be badly missed. those are some big shoes you leave behind to be filled …

  • Jason Gooden

    Well heck, I’d like to know where you end up. Leaving MS must be a tough one! Too bad I missed you while out in Redmond last time. We need to stay in touch…
    J

  • http://www.steliodibello.com Stelio Di Bello

    It is very hard to understand MS strategies on Azure if they are loosing their best EVANGELIST….
    I am sure that you are taking the right decision…. good luck Wade!

  • http://www.notsotrivial.net Clint Edmonson

    Damn, that candle burned fast and bright. Best of luck man!