Friends, this is my last post. I've enjoyed being a part of the Office developer community for the past 4 years and meeting everyone over the past 10 years from the Microsoft side of the fence.  My next part of the journey will be from the other side of the fence as a Senior Program Manager for SmartDesktop.

I'm really excited about the future plans for VSTA and VSTO, and some of the other tricks the team has up its sleeve. :)  I've been in touch with the folks working on the OpenXML SDK and I'm seeing some great work and ideas.  Keep watching all the Office developer blogs, I know I will.

A lot of folks here at Microsoft refer to leaving MS as "retiring" even though they are simply moving to another job.  I like to think of it as "Graduating".  Who knows, maybe I'll be back for some post-graduate work someday. 

- Kevin J. Boske

Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Applications.