Mike Ball

It’s all signed and sealed, and I’ve called most of my colleagues whom I wanted to inform personally.

I just accepted an offer from MicroSoft to work for them in the Bay Area. They are starting a new operation there with a focus on multi-threading compilers and tools, and it seems like it’s just made to order for me. I’m not mad at Sun or anything, but they don’t really seem to want what I want to do.

I’ll be moving up to the Bay Area over the next few months. It’s liable to take a while, though, because reducing our load to what we can put in a smaller house is sort of like a going out of business sale for Macy’s. It can’t really be done quickly.

I expect to maintain two households for a while until we get it all finished.

I’m excited by the prospects and ready to go. Until then, I have to do a lot of writing for Sun to get the stuff in my head onto paper for the next person who has to pick it up.

I haven’t had a lot of comments, but all of the ones I’ve had have been positive. The change is now official. ballfam.net is now the new website. There’s still a link to the old one if you want it. I’ll be getting to the help files as soon as I can. See the next post for why it might be a bit delayed.