- 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.
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel .
- 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.
- Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entrepreneur. With Bill Gates, he formed Microsoft. Allen regularly appears on lists of the richest people in the world; as of 2007 "Forbes" ranks him the fifth richest American, worth an estimated $18.0 billion. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. (his private asset management company)and chairman of Charter Communications.
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- 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, …
- Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie Encyclopedia Search: in Tutorials Encyclopedia Dictionary Entire Web Store
- Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is a consultant, writer, and widely quoted technical and legal analyst in the information technology industry. Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, the SCO Group, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are (or have been) among his clients. Enderle has been critical of Apple Computer and Linux, as well as Unix and the open source/free software movements in general.
- Aaron Goldberg
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, …
- Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux OBE (born 5 May 1959 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a computer game designer and game programmer, responsible for well known "God games" "Populous" and "Black & White", among others, as well as "Business Strategy" games such as "Theme Park" and most recently, "The Movies". In August 1997 Peter left Bullfrog Productions to establish a new development team, Lionhead Studios.
- 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.
- 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 .
- Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky started his web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to improve the world of programming. His extraordinary writing skills, technical knowledge, and caustic wit have made him a programming guru. This log, now legend in the programming world, is linked to more than 600 other websites and translated into more than 30 languages!
- Paul Thurrott
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).
- Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his father was a physicist and his mother a biologist. He started writing free software in 1992.
- 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.
- Warren Buffet
Warren Edward Buffett (b. August 30 1930, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments managed through the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by "Forbes" as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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
- Keith Brown
Keith Brown is a technical author on Microsoft Windows Security. Keith has been the security columnist for MSDN Magazine since 1998 (back when the magazine was called Microsoft Systems Journal). Keith works for Pluralsight, a .NET training provider, where he leads the security curriculum.
- Neelie Kroes
Neelie Kroes (born July 19, 1941 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch politician and businessperson. Neelie Kroes was a Member of Parliament in the Netherlands for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Later she was the Dutch State Secretary and Minister of Transport and Water Management. Neelie Kroes was member of the board of commissioners of several multinationals. She currently is the Dutch European Commissioner for Competition.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Kim Jong-Il
Kim Jong-il (also written as Kim Jong Il) (born February 16, 1942 in Vyatskoye, Soviet Union) is the leader of North Korea. He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (the ruling party since 1948). He succeeded his father Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea, who died in 1994.
- 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, …
- Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
- 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
- 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 …
- 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.
- Mike Neil
Mike Neil is a software engineer who worked for Apple Computer, Connectix, Pixo, then Connectix again, and now Microsoft (as a result of Microsoft's acquisition of Connectix). He has worked on several noteworthy projects, including Apple Computer's development tools for the Mac OS, an Apple IIGS emulator named Gus, Connectix Virtual PC, and the Pixo OS (now the iPod OS). This is not a complete list. Mike Neil was the VP of Engineering at Connectix.
- 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."
- 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.
- Thomas Penfield Jackson
Thomas Penfield Jackson (born January 10, 1937) was a United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia. He was appointed in 1982 after serving as president of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He is currently an attorney with the Jackson and Campbell, P.C., law firm. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1958, and from Harvard Law School in 1964.
- Nikhil Kothari
Nikhil Kothari is an architect on the Web/ASP.NET team at Microsoft, and is primarily responsible for the server controls framework, Atlas (Ajax Framework) framework, and ScriptSharp. He is the author of "Developing ASP.NET Server Controls and Components" - which is the book on writing server controls. He is also the creator of ASP.NET Web Matrix.