As Clare already talked about. There is a large number of development jobs open in Microsoft Ireland at the moment. Many of them are in the new R&D area recently announced. So if you are thinking of a change, I can recommend Microsoft as an amazing place for techies to work.

The longawaited whitepaper on transactions is finally available. Its an important read for anyone trying to understand the current and future options for implementing transactions (specifically it introduces System.Transactions)