- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …
- Steve Ballmer
Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates . Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company.
- Ray Ozzie
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- Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (b. April 1996), Rory John Gates (b. 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (b. 2002). Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, …
- Dare Obasanjo
Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on the Contacts team. The Contacts team provides back-end support for Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, and related services. Obasanjo is also known for RSS Bandit, a popular .NET-based RSS reader he wrote on a whim. He is the son of the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.
- Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee (Traditional Chinese:李開復 Simplified Chinese:李开复 pinyin:Lǐ Kāifù, b. December 3, 1961) is an information technology executive and a computer science researcher. The founding president of Google China, he was hired in July, 2005. He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, …
- Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen is a well-known developer on the Windows Shell team at Microsoft. Since joining Microsoft in 1992, Chen has worked on OS/2, Windows 95, DirectX, and later versions of Windows. Outside of Microsoft, he is known for his articles on Windows programming. He is a popular speaker at Microsoft PDCs and other conferences. He is also known for his dry humor, and his custom of wearing suits at work.
- J Allard
J Allard (his legal name; formerly James Allard) (born January 12 1969 in Glens Falls, New York) is a Corporate Vice President and the Chief XNA Architect at Microsoft. He also oversaw Microsoft's first foray into the video game industry, the Xbox. Allard oversees all design and engineering for the Xbox console, peripherals, Microsoft's multiplayer online service Xbox Live, as well as development tools for video game developers.
- Craig Mundie
Craig Mundie Image Gallery: A collection of images of Microsoft Chief … A collection of images of Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie . … Angeles: Microsoft Chief Research & Strategy Officer Craig Mundie …
- Peter Moore
Peter Moore (Born 1955 in Liverpool, England) is best known for his position as Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, which includes the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles. Moore announced his resignation from Microsoft on July 17, 2007 to take over the Sports Division of Electronic Arts California.
- Chris Sells
Chris Sells is married with 2 children. Currently working at Microsoft. Chris Sells children are the Sells Brothers, located at their official website below
- Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold is chief executive officer and founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private firm focused on the funding, creation and commercialization of inventions. Before Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold spent 14 years at Microsoft Corporation where he retired in May 2000 from his position as chief technology officer.
- Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now heads his own company, "Intentional Software", with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of Intentional programming. In 2007, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. His estimated net worth is $1 billion.
- Michael Howard
Michael Howard is a software security expert from Microsoft. He is author of several computer security books, most famous "Writing Secure Code". Michael Howard is frequent speaker at security related conferences, and he frequently publishes articles on this subject. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/features/2005/MichaelHoward2005.jpg
- Mark Russinovich
Mark Russinovich is a software engineer and author who works for Microsoft as a Technical fellow. He is a regular contributor to "TechNet Magazine" and "Windows IT Pro" magazine (previously called "Windows NT Magazine") on the subject of the Architecture of Windows 2000 and was co-author of "Inside Windows 2000" (4th edition). Russinovich is the author of many tools used by Windows NT and Windows 2000 kernel-mode programmers, …
- Don Box
Don Box is a software developer currently working at Microsoft. Along with Bob Atkinson, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, and Dave Winer, Don was of the original four designers of SOAP, a basic messaging layer for web services. He currently works on Brad Lovering's team working on model-driven runtime and tool support at Microsoft. Prior to that, Don was an architect on Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as Indigo) and related technologies.
- Alex Barnett
Alexander Anthony Barnett is an English cricketer. He represented Middlesex, Lancashire and Surrey as an left-arm orthodox bowler and a right-handed batsman. In 50 first-class matches between 1988 and 1994, he took 113 wickets at an average of 45.93. He has also played club cricket for Hampstead. His great-uncle Charles Barnett opened the batting for Gloucestershire and England. Alex currently holds the position of Vice President, …
- Mark Lucovsky
Mark Lucovsky is an American software developer who worked for Microsoft and who is now employed by Google. He is noted for being a part of the team that designed and built the Windows NT operating system. Lucovsky received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1983 from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he came to the attention of Dave Cutler and Lou Perazzoli.
- Larry Hryb
Larry Hryb, known by the pseudonym Major Nelson, is the Director of Programming for Xbox Live, the popular Microsoft gaming network. His popular blog Xbox Live's Major Nelson provides an "inside" look at operations at Microsoft's Xbox division; in particular, he discusses the online features and functionality first and foremost. He also discusses recent games and other news that interests him.
- Paul Maritz
Paul Maritz , was President and General Manager of EMC Corporation's Cloud Computing division. Maritz was a senior executive at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000, where he served on the 5-person executive management team. He was founder and CEO of Pi Corporation, a company backed by Warburg Pincus, which was acquired by EMC in February 2008. In July of 2008 he was appointed President and CEO of VMware, replacing Diane Greene .
- Jim Gray
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) is an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."
- Bill Hilf
Bill Hilf is the general manager of Platform Strategy driving Microsoft's platform strategy efforts across the company. Bill's primary focus is to champion platform initiatives that cross these groups, while leading long-term strategy planning in the Windows Server and Tools organization.
- Danny Thorpe
Danny Thorpe is a developer working with Microsoft's Windows Live Platform team. He was the Chief Scientist for Windows and .NET developer tools at Borland Corporation starting from January 2004 until October 2005, as well as Chief Architect of the Delphi programming language from 2000 to 2005. He joined Borland in 1990 as an associate QA engineer working on Turbo Pascal 6.0. He was a member of the team that created the Delphi programming language, …
- Anders Hejlsberg
Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal, a revolutionary integrated development environment, and chief architect of its successor, Delphi. Hejlsberg co-authored "The C# Programming Language", published by Addison Wesley, and has received numerous software patents. In 2001, he was the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award.
- Steve Wood
Steve Wood (born 1952) is an American technology-industry programmer, manager, and investor best known as an early Microsoft employee. Wood graduated with a BS from Case Western Reserve University and an MSEE from Stanford. He was Employee No. 6 at Microsoft, but in 1980 one of the first original employees to leave, after his wife Marla Wood, then a bookkeeper, organized the non-exempt employees and filed an overtime pay dispute (later settled) against the company.
- Patty Stonesifer
Patty Stonesifer is the Co-chair and President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1997, Bill and Melinda Gates asked Stonesifer to launch the Gates Library Foundation, which later merged with the William H. Gates Foundation in 2000. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's US$24 billion endowment fund hands out more than a billion dollars a year to "improve access to advances in global health and learning." Prior to 1997, …
- Dave Cutler
David Neil Cutler, Sr. (born March 13, 1942) is a noted software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, VMS and VAXELN systems of Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT from Microsoft.
- James Allchin
James Edward Allchin (born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1951) is a former executive at Microsoft, where he was responsible for leading the development of a number of Microsoft's operating systems, streaming media products and Internet services. He worked for Microsoft for over 16 years before retiring in early 2007, on the day that Microsoft officially released the Windows Vista operating system to consumers.
- Brian Valentine
Brian Valentine is an American technology executive who is currently the Senior Vice President, Ecommerce Platform at Amazon.com. Previously he was a senior vice president of the Windows Core Operating System Division (COSD) at Microsoft, affectionately known as 'MOM', where he was responsible for overseeing the development of core Windows technologies such as networking and the kernel.
- Brad Silverberg
Brad is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in software, infrastructure, and consumer companies. Brad represents Ignition as director on the boards of GlobalScholar, Seven, SourceLabs, and ice.com. Prior to founding Ignition, Brad is best known as an industry pioneer who built the Microsoft Windows franchise and led Microsoft's Internet turnaround.
- Mark Jen
Mark Jen is known for being terminated with cause by Google, Inc. for distributing corporate secrets in his personal blog, 99zeros. His original writings are still available for viewing in the archives at his current blog. Jen worked for Google between January 17, 2005 and January 28, 2005, a total of 10 business days. Jen currently works for Tagged.com
- Ric Weiland
Richard W. 'Ric' Weiland (1953 - 2006) was a computer software pioneer and philanthropist. He was one of the first five employees of Microsoft Corp. Weiland was a high school classmate and friend of Paul Allen, with whom he created the Lakeside Programmers Group at their school. After he graduated from Stanford University, Allen and Bill Gates hired him in 1975, the same year they founded Microsoft in Albuquerque.
- Darcy Burner
Darcy Gibbons Burner is a Democrat from Carnation, Washington. She was a candidate for in 2006, but lost to Republican Dave Reichert. In March 2007 she filed her intention to run in the 2008 race for the same district. She worked for a dozen years in high technology including five years at Microsoft as a Group Program Manager, working on .NET. Burner left Microsoft in 2004 to enter politics.
- Bob Wallace
Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 - September 20, 2002), was the ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware, creator of the word processing program PC-Write, founder of the software company Quicksoft and an "online drug guru" who devoted much time and money into the research of psychedelic drugs. His home in Marin was the location of monthly invitation-only dinners ("Friday night dinners") that were attended by notable people involved in psychedelic drug research.
- Vic Gundotra
Vic Gundotra, formerly a General Manager of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft and a 15-year Microsoft employee, has joined Google in June 2007 after taking a one year delay working on charitable endeavors because of Microsoft employee non-compete agreement. His job was promoting Microsoft APIs and platforms to be used by independent developers.
- Herb Sutter
Herb Sutter is one of the most prominent C++ experts. He is also a book author and a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. His books include: * "Exceptional C++" (Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-61562-2) * "More Exceptional C++" (Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-70434-X) * "Exceptional C++ Style" (Addison-Wesley, 2005, ISBN 0-201-76042-8) * "C++ Coding Standards" (together with Andrei Alexandrescu, Addison-Wesley, 2005, …
- Scott Baker
Scott Baker designed the current Microsoft logo in 1987.
- John Platt
Dr John Platt is a senior researcher in the Knowledge Tools Group at Microsoft Corporation. Platt has worked for Microsoft since 1997. Prior to Microsoft, Platt had served as Director of Research at Synaptics. Platt was born in Elgin, Illinois and matriculated at California State University, Long Beach at the age of 14. After graduating from CSULB at the age of 18, Platt enrolled in a computer science PhD program at California Institute of Technology.
- Gordon Letwin
Gordon Letwin is a software developer who is known for being one of the original eleven Microsoft employees. While at Microsoft, Letwin worked on a number of projects. His first project at Microsoft was writing a BASIC compiler. He is most noted for being the lead architect of the OS/2 operating system on the Microsoft side, with Ed Iacobucci being the lead architect from IBM's side. Letwin contributed much of the design and code for several core components, …
- Ed Fries
Ed Fries was vice president of game publishing at Microsoft during much of the Xbox's lifecycle. He was a prime evangelist of the platform to game developers and had an important role in the acquisition of developers Bungie Studios, Ensemble Studios and Rare. Fries left Microsoft in January 2004. He now consults with Sony Online Entertainment and is involved with several startups including AGEIA, …