My work status has gone through “some changes” recently.
A number of readers have written to me about Mary Jo Foley's report on a “goodbye party” thrown at Microsoft a few weeks ago when I officially gave up my role as Chief Architect of Identity. Others saw Vittorio Bertocci‘s kind recollection of the progress we made over the years.
When Tim Cole interviewed me about my plans a few days later at the European Identity Conference, I hadn't made the slightest progress in terms of thinking about my future… I did say, though, that I hoped to keep my hand in the identity and social computing space to the extent that people found my input useful.
One way to do this was to look for opportunities to participate in interesting efforts on a per-project basis. It turns out that within a few days I was asked to do this with Microsoft over the summer. Not exactly a complete change (!) but it still feels liberating and different.
Don't worry – I won't bore you with reports on my gigs going forward, but thought in the interests of full disclosure, you should know how this particular situation is evolving 🙂
Takeaway: Life is good, and even more than ever, this blog represents my own views, which can't be blamed on anyone else even when I wish they could.
