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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

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

A couple of days ago I received an email telling me I got the MVP Award for 2010 ! I’ve been waiting a little bit before I wrote this post because I invited my coworkers at home in order to celebrate this yesterday and I wanted to keep the surprise

This is the very first year I got the MVP award. I’m very proud to have this recognition from Microsoft and it is giving me new ideas for the future. I started this blog almost 2 years ago now and I’d never imagine I’d get so much feedback about it. My MVP award is also recognizing my work in the French community (on the developpez.com website) or for conferences I’m giving in my daily job.

The MVP award will be also for me the occasion to have pre-release of Microsoft software (but I’ll not be able to publicly give information about them since I’ve just signed an NDA) and also to enjoy a free MSDN-Premium subscription !

For more information about the MVP Award Program you can check-out:

• the home page of the program
• the blog the program

Thanks to all my readers also who are giving me feedback and support.  I’d also like to thank my co-workers who are helpful in my daily job. I’m very lucky to be part of this very nice team. By reading posts before they go public (Charlotte, Fred !) or discussion about software programming in general (the whole Pythagore group!) I get cool ideas about things I want to share. So thank you every one for supporting me