Word leaked out in the trainer community in the last week, and word is leaking out all around. So, to clarify, yes, it is true. Today, in about 6.5 hours, I will be joining many other IT professionals in New Employee Orientation (NEO) training at Microsoft. I will be wearing a blue badge pretty soon, after they take a picture of my pretty face and print it up.

It is funny how the word gets out. Some people heard because they were involved in the process. Others heard because jobs that I have been doing suddenly became available. Yet others heard because people can't help but share wonderful inside information (meaning they can't keep secrets) with others.

The right opportunity came up, and I just had to take advantage of it. I opened the door.

What does this mean? Scott Hanselman really did a great job of explaining his reasons for joining Microsoft, and they very closely mirror mine with the major exception being that Scott is a code weenie (BTW, I do not consider that derogatory, and if you do, then please accept my apologies) and I am an admin type.

I am extremely excited about the future, and I will share more once I am up and running in my new position. This, however, will be my final post in this blog. I intent to do some changes to the number of blogs that I use and this one will be one that is dropped. My main blog will continue to be http://msmvps.com/clusterhelp.

I would like to say that nothing will change in my blogging, but I have to admit that it is likely that things will change a bit. I promise to try to share more knowledge as I gain it. You can be sure that I will keep that promise. However, at the same time, there will be lots of information that I just can't share because I am not allowed to share it. Sorry, that is life. The same has always been true, though, as I have been under Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with Microsoft for many years. I would love to share lots of stuff that I have had to keep to myself, but I am bound by both honor and legal agreements.

I expect that I will go dark (geek talk for not being publically available) for a few weeks, but I will be back and sharing again in the very near future on my other blog.

I will miss the people at Ameriteach. They are a great bunch. Maybe, sometime in the near future, I will be able to come back and teach a class as a guest trainer. I don't know if it will happen, but I will try.