After helping to ship Visual Studio 2005, making sure it can be used around the world (sorry, this took up a lot of my time and I didn't blog much in the last couple of months) I felt that the time was ripe for a new challenge - pursuing a masters degree in Computational Linguistics. For me logically processing text and speech is "just" the next level up from processing characters, which is what software internationalization is about a lot.

 

To finish the program in a reasonable amount of time I decided to leave Microsoft and become a fulltime student. The first few weeks already turn out to be quite interesting (and challenging)! You can read about my new adventures on my new blog. I'm sure we'll run into each other offline or online sometime - internationalization makes a small world.