PowerShell MVP 2009

This has been an exceptional year, developing PowerShell Plus 3.0 (being among the TechEd 2009 finalists), organizing PowerShell Roadshows in Germany, evangelizing mid and large scale enterprises and establishing powershell.com as one of the best PowerShell-related source! Time to thank all of you for being part of it and sharing your enthusiasm and vision for PowerShell!

To give something back to you, we just published our *free* 500+ pages ebook to provide you with all the information you might need to get started with PowerShell. A big thanks goes to Alex who worked day and night to polish the translation and add even more content, and also to David Fargo for organizing the entire project. And we also changed the way the PowerShell Plus download page works. You now can download PowerShellPlus without registration hassle. One click, and you are in business.

To top it all, I received an email from Microsoft:

Dear Tobias,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in PowerShell technical communities during the past year.

I have received the MVP award five times before so by now I should be able to control my adrenaline. Well, I am not. Being renominated is always special and never taken for granted. I am grateful, I enjoy the company of my fellow MVPs very much and I am thrilled to see that  Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett and Jonathan Noble are now also among us. Good job - and well deserved!

Cheers,

Tobias