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, …

Paul Thurrott is the news editor for Windows IT Pro . He writes a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE (http://www.windowsitpro.com/email) and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE (http://www.wininformant.com).

Joanna Rutkowska is a Polish security specialist, primarily known for her research on stealth malware and contributions to Windows Vista backdoor installation and hiding techniques. On 2006-08-04, at a Black Hat Briefings conference, Rutkowska demonstrated two methods to bypass security measures implemented in Windows Vista Beta 2 - and subsequently, has been named one of "Five Hackers who Put a Mark on 2006" by eWeek Magazine for her research on the topic.

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.

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.

Tjeerd Hoek (born 1970 in Netherlands) is the director of user experience design for Microsoft Windows. He manages the team that designs the interface and user experience across Windows and its subset of applications. In 1992, he graduated from Delft University of Technology with a masters in Industrial Design Engineering to pursue a career in industrial design. Later in 1994, he joined Microsoft to work on products such as Office, MSN and most recently, …

Aaron Goldberg (born April 30, 1974, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a jazz pianist based in New York City. He began studying piano at seven and studied under Bob Sinicrope and saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi. In 1991 at age 17, he studied at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music before enrolling at Harvard University, …

Information Technology Manager with broad technical experience and background relating to networking infrastructure, integrated systems, and support of enterprise solutions. Interested in companies seeking to expand with focus on people, technology, and process improvement.

Peter Nicholas Biddle joined Microsoft in 1990. Biddle is the original inventor of the Darknet, a founder of SDMI, CPTWG, and TCPA, an early Technical evangelist for DVD and DVR, the founding father of Microsoft’s Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB, aka Palladium) initiative, and was responsible for starting Microsoft's Hypervisor development efforts.

Lucas de Groot is a Dutch type designer. He is the head of the type foundry Fontfabrik. He is mostly known for the very large font family Thesis (TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix, TheSansMono and later TheAntiqua), Corpid (previously AgroSans), and Calibri. Luc de Groot also designed custom fonts such as Calibri and Consolas for Microsoft Vista, for the newspapers like Der Spiegel with ‘SpiegelSans’, Die tageszeitung with ‘Taz’, Folha de S. Paulo with ‘FolhaSerif’, …

Andrew Glaister, born July 4th, 1967 in Marlow, England, is a video game programmer. He initially started programming games on the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum between 1981 and 1987, forming a company called Programmers Development Systems Ltd. Andrew then worked as a developer for Viacom New Media, Kinesoft Development and FASA Interactive in the US. When Microsoft Game Studios acquired FASA in 1999, Andrew continued to work for them as a Development Manager, …

Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in infrastructure, messaging and communications projects using Microsoft products and Server. Always interested in migration and architecture projects, as well as close interaction with the manufacturers.

Lili is an awesome researcher at Microsoft who does social networking stuff. She approved this bio. not.

Steven Sinofsky is an employee of Microsoft. He "is the senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group — the user experience of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live services. The group is responsible for the development of Windows Vista technologies, including user interface, device support, graphics and media as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer; the group delivers Windows Live services experiences, including Windows Live Hotmail, …