Is Microsoft April-Foolin' or did I get an MVP award?

Usually on a Sunday morning, I'll sleep in. Today I woke up for no good reason at 4:55am. Don't know why, just couldn't sleep. I headed downstairs for a quick drink of water, but had no urge to try sleeping again. Samantha, the Samsung Q1P, was nearby, so we dealt with our insomnia together and checked e-mail. Can you believe that not 20 minutes prior, the above e-mail was sent to me? I seriously thought it was an April Fool's day joke, but it appears that it's not: Microsoft was kind enough to award me a Tablet PC MVP!

The award is to recognize contributions to the technical area and community over the past year. I hope than in some way, I've helped you along in your Tablet PC or UMPC endeavors in that time. If I haven't, I look forward to helping you in the future! I'm absolutely thrilled to join the great Tablet PC community folks like James, Marc (who has a new book out now!), Warner, Rob, Dennis, Hugo, Craig and all the rest. Sorry if I didn't mention all 19 of the current Tablet MVPs; I think the early hour is catching up to me. I'm going back to bed!

Comments

[Jonathan Balkind]

I really hope that this is true and I congratulate you if it is..

If it isn't, this is gonna be like the 20th April Fool I've seen today.

[Matt]

Nice...Congrats man!

[monkey2nut]

If this is true (which I hope it is), you should announce this kind of news on 2nd April.

Well done !
:-)

[James Kendrick]

Congrats Kevin! Long overdue and I was going to post this tomorrow to avoid the confusion with April Fools. :)

[Don't Panic!]

It's for real Kevin. Congratulations!

[Warner Crocker]

Congrats Kevin. More than well deserved.

[Sam]

Congratulations. My word, Microsoft seems to hand out MVPs as regularly as the Queen of England hands out knighthoods.

[arebelspy]

Congrats KCT. :)

[Steven Hughes]

Congratulations Kevin!

Its about time!!! :)

[Patrick Santry]

Congrats and welcome to the fold Kevin. I read this site, and your posts often.

And yes, April 1st is the day that Microsoft hands out some of the MVPs, I'm an ASP.NET MVP for the past four years and it has been April 1st for each of those years. The MVP award is handed out a couple times during the year at a certain date each year.

Congrats again and keep up the great work!

[Philip Ferris]

Congratulations Kevin, I have no doubt you deserve it!

Best wishes

Phil

[Dennis Rice]

Way to go Microsoft, it's about time. An award truly worthy and late in the coming from my perspective Kevin.

Welcome to our little group, and I look forward to more great coffee drinking and computer undressing from you in the future.

Now maybe James won't look so lonely because he had to come to MVP events without his sidekick! :-) (he's a pretty needy guy, especially now that he took thjat Apple job)

[Chris Leckness]

Congrats Kevin, Very well deserved. You will make a great addition to the MVP Community.

[kamikun]

On both this and the coming nuptials, Sammy and I send our congratulations. This really is great news and you deserve the new toy from MS. Now join with CTitanic and get those HID drivers for the Q1 already! :)

[Hugo ortega]

The WOW starts now! I'm sure this will only make you more passionate than ever KCT! Now I'm really looking forward tot he MVP Summit next year...the whole gang together.

Welcome, welcome!

[Chris Magnusson]

It's well after noon and I haven't seen any sign of a retraction yet, so congratulations! I've been reading this site since well before there were two ugly mugs ( ;-) ) in the right-hand sidebar and I have to say the status is well-deserved.

[Tax Man]

Happy MVP Day, Kevin! You are certainly "most valuable" in my book. Glad that MSoft recognizes that too!

Bill (aka Tax Man)

[Elo]

Kevin, congratulations!! It is wonderful to see the awesome work you guys are doing being recognized like that!

[Rob Bushway]

Congratulations, Kevin! Much deserved.

Rob

[Amit Agarwal]

Heartiest Congratulations Kevin.