Well deserved

Found out today that Jeffrey Snover has been given the accolade within Microsoft of Distinguished Engineer, which according to the front page is "an acknowledgement of the key role being played by a technical contributor, whose high level of performance, technical vision, expertise and world-class leadership is instrumental in developing and driving products and standards for Microsoft and the technology industry into the future." It just goes to prove how importantly MS view PowerShell. There are only about 40 DEs in MS so it's some achievement.

Also linked on the same page was the list of Microsoft Technical Fellows. The names of Mark Russinovich and David Cutler feature here and should be well known to IT Pros. Some of the other names though may not be so well known, for example I didn't know that Chuck Thacker worked on the first Tablet PC.

What is really enlightening is that when you read about what the DEs and TFs know and do, it proves that when they present at events like TechEd they are only barely scratching the surface of a given subject with the audience.