Sorry, couldn't help it but I can't think of Rich without thinkng of the phrase "No! Nope! Niet! Non! Negative! Nuh-huh! [shake head vigorously]!!!" in response to the question "is .net remoting dead?"

He's off to be p.m. for InfoCards, whic makes perfect sense. I think outside of Microsoft, Michele is the one person who knows anything about InfoCards so far - but that too, is a natural given her work in interop.