Moving on from the Debugger Team
Here is a (slightly redacted) email I sent to the C# team recently:
I have accepted a dev position on the Windows Media team, on the the "Professional Content Group". I have worked on the debugger for over nine years (my entire time at Microsoft excluding the first 3 months), so I hope you will appreciate this was a very hard decision for me to make.
Being Acting Dev Mgr for the last few months taught me a lot, and the most important thing it taught me was that in fact I don’t want to be a dev manager. This caused me to re-evaluate my career plan and my priorities, and when I saw a position open on the PCG team I put a lot more thought into it. As many of you know, if there's one thing I'll rattle on for ages about apart from debuggers, it is audio-video stuff. My Acting job also taught me that I need to code at least some of the time, so I am returning to a individual contributor position.
The team have done great stuff for Whidbey and it will delight customers when they get it. The plans for Hawaii look exciting too, and I look forward to being a customer of all of your bits. I will fight all attempts to use windbg, I promise.
Andy
I can't go into details about the product I am working on, except that is is new, so please no questions about Movie Maker or Media Player, I know less than you do most likely about those products. I will continue to be an avid customer of the VS debugger, and it will no doubt take many years for my cranium to truly empty of the debugger arcania that currently pretty much fills it right now.
