Nick Hodapp, We Hardly Knew Ye
Nick Hodapp, Visual C++ product manager and all-around good guy, is leaving Microsoft next week to go make video games. Nick joined Microsoft a few months before I did and was always a good person to learn "new guy" stuff from and bounce stupid "new guy" questions off of (because he had been asking them a few months before I was). I must admit that I'm a little jealous of Nick's new job, which is as at Oberon Media, makers of Inspector Parker, one of my favorite casual games. Although I'm sad to see him go, I'm especially glad that he isn't landing at a competitor :-)