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MVP 2014 – 2015

I’m definitively late on blogging for the last few months… but I’m happy to share that I was just awarded Microsoft MVP another year 🙂

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Another great news for me is that Microsoft decided to merge 2 distinct MVP groups: Client App Dev and Windows Phone Dev in the new Windows Platform group. It means better interaction between both platforms which is without a doubt a great move.

You can find my MVP profile on Microsoft’s website here.

MVP 2012-2013 !

Yesterday, Sunday July 1st I received a great news from Microsoft: I have been given the MVP award for the third consecutive year 🙂

I’m very proud to be part of what I called a “family”. The last year has been very busy for me (with the trip to //BUILD/ for example) and even though I wasn’t very active in the last few weeks I still have many things to share soon ! I also strongly hope to be able to go back to Redmond next February for the MVP Summit…

I would like to send a particular thank to my colleague Charlotte who was speaking with me in the last French TechDays and also helped me to write an article in a magazine…

Thanks everyone,

Jeremy

 

MVP Client App Dev: one more year!

The last few weeks have been very busy for me and unfortunately I don’t have much time for blogging… I wanted to give a quick update however because I receive great news a couple of days ago in my inbox: I’ve been re-awarded MVP in the Client App !

This nomination is my second one. The past 12 months have been very interesting and exciting for me:
• I was the speaker during the Microsoft Techdays in Paris
• I went to the US the first time in order to meet other MVPs in Redmond for the Global MVP Summit
• I started new interesting projects at work involving new Microsoft technologies I was not very familiar with

About the MVP award, I’d also like to thank my co-worker Charlotte who is very often helping me by polishing articles I wrote, giving technical presentations with me, etc. I think part of this award is for her too 🙂

This post is also an occasion to bring the topic of the future of WPF and Silverlight on the table… As you probably know there have been a lot of rumors and debates lately about this. My opinion is simple:

• The message from Microsoft during the first preview of Windows 8 should have been “you’d have the ability to develop apps using HTML5” instead “these apps will be develop using HTML5” (which lead to the WPF/SL/.Net are dead discussions…)
• The future of XAML is exciting: the decision to move the XAML team from DevDiv to WinDiv is a sign that XAML will play a big role in Windows 8 (probably for both native and managed apps which is huge)
• WPF and Silverlight are both good UI technologies, we might see something new coming in Windows 8 but I think it’ll be based on concepts we’re already familiar with (such as binding, XAML…)

If you want to read more about Windows 8 you can check out those posts:

Strange times in the world of Microsoft developers (by Josh Smith)
Microsoft needs to tell Windows 8 developers now about ‘Jupiter’ and Silverlight (by Mary-Jo Foley)

Hopefully we don’t have to wait for a very long time since the BUILD conference is September should give many answers to us.

PS: most of my lack of time for writing new blog posts come from a new house we just moved in with my girlfriend… We’re now 10 minutes from the city center of Grenoble 🙂

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