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Looks like Julia Lerman was part of an April Fool's joke on VB stuff. Clearly I didn't see it; I thought she was the target of the joke :) Reminds me of my reaction to the "Microsoft buys Squeak" joke from a few years back. Thank goodness I only reacted in email :)
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Maybe not a prank after all
[Patrick Logan] April 1, 2005 15:35:25.349
Now we can see the Microsoft press release was just a bit premature and not a prank at all. For example we see the plan just takes a while to get through the organizational red tape...
'In fact, many Smalltalk-80 developers are expected to join a new Microsoft research group in Portland, Oregon which will be headed by Ward Cunningham, a prominent Smalltalk researcher. Mr. Cunningham explained that "they wanted me to come to Redmond but I decided to remain here in Portland. When they decided to build a research center here for me I was thrilled!"'