Interesting to see the news that Paul Vick (long time VB guru) is moving over to the Oslo team. As Darryl Taft notes, this is telling evidence of how important the Oslo initiative at Microsoft is shaping up to be.

Oslo is Microsoft’s upcoming visual modelling tool (we covered it here a few days back).

Paul announced his move on his blog, and took pains to reassure the VB faithful that he won’t be going too far:

Even though I’ll be spending a good bit of my time on Oslo, though, I’ll still going to be an active member of the VB community. I’ll still be talking about VB on this blog, opining on the language and it’s future, and, I’m sure, continuing to answer lots of questions. I’ll be continuing to use VB and am really excited where the product is going in this release and the next one (but more about that at the PDC!).

Don Box, who looks after the Oslo team, was as succinct as ever over the announcement, providing the following sum total:

Paul just joined my team to work on the Oslo language, specifically the parts covered in this talk.

I can’t put into words how happy I am that Paul signed up to help us birth this baby.

Darryl’s analysis is excellent and there’s nothing much we can add to the subject – just go read his post here.

You can follow Paul on Twitter here.

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