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Jim Allchin

Born 1951
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Florida
Stanford University
Known for His work at Microsoft

James "Jim" Edward Allchin (born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1951) is a former executive at Microsoft, where he was responsible for many of the platform components from Microsoft including Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, server products such as SQL Server, and developer technologies. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The University of Florida ( Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major Research Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer He may be most known for building Microsoft's server business. After sixteen years at Microsoft, Allchin retired in early 2007 - on the day that Microsoft officially released the Windows Vista operating system to consumers. Windows Vista (ˈvɪstə is a line of Operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and business desktops An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination [1] He is also known for his leading role in the architecture and development of the directory services technology Banyan VINES. In software engineering a directory is similar to a dictionary it enables the look up of a name and information associated with that name Banyan VINES (for Virtual Integrated NEtwork Service) was a Computer network Operating system and the set of computer Network protocols it used He has won numerous awards through the years such as Technical Excellence Person of Year in 2001. [2]

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Biography

Early years

Allchin was born to a poor family in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1951. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January While he was still an infant, the family moved to Keysville, Florida, where his parents worked on a farm. Later Allchin and his older brother Keith also worked on the farm to help the family's finances. [3]

While fixing equipment on the farm, Allchin developed an interest in engineering. He briefly studied electrical engineering at the University of Florida but dropped out to play in a number of bands. The University of Florida ( Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major Research However he returned to the university and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science in 1973. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar.

He then joined Texas Instruments, where he helped build a new operating system. Texas Instruments ( better known in the electronics industry (and popularly as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, USA An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination He then followed a former lecturer, Dick Kiger, to Wyoming, where he helped start a company that provided computer services nationwide, before moving on to another company in Dallas, Texas. The State of Wyoming ( is a sparsely populated state in the western region of the United States.

Allchin returned to his studies, gaining an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1980. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) While studying towards a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology in the early eighties, he was the architect of the Clouds distributed object-oriented operating system[4]; his thesis was entitled "An Architecture for Reliable Decentralized Systems" [5]. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech, or Tech, is a public, Coeducational Research university in

In 1983, Allchin was recruited to Banyan by founder Dave Mahoney, eventually rising through the company to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Banyan Systems Inc was founded in 1983 by David C Mahoney a software engineer and mid-level manager at Data General, and Anand Jagannathan A chief technical officer or chief technology officer (abbreviated as CTO) is an executive position whose holder is focused on scientific and technical issues within During his seven years at Banyan, he was the principal architect of the VINES distributed operating system, including the StreetTalk directory protocol. Banyan VINES (for Virtual Integrated NEtwork Service) was a Computer network Operating system and the set of computer Network protocols it used

For a year, Bill Gates tried to recruit a reluctant Allchin to join Microsoft, finally persuading him in 1990 by telling him that whatever he created would reach a wider customer base through Microsoft than through anyone else. If you would like to experiment with Wikipedia please copy Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar)

Allchin is known as a prolific computer programmer/engineer. [6] There are stories about Allchin debugging systems remotely by having the person on the phone toggle in hexadecimal via the front panel switches of early computers to correct problems. [7]

Microsoft

Initially Microsoft put Allchin in charge of revamping the Local Area Network Manager, using his networking expertise. In fact, he did away with the project entirely. "This is never going to work. You have to shut it down. Shut it down. Take the whole thing down. " Allchin emphasized the need to start fresh.

Allchin's first high-profile project at Microsoft was the Cairo operating system that was intended to was originally intended to replace Windows NT. Cairo was the code name for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996 (Cairo was the codename of Windows NT 4 Windows NT is a family of Operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993 [8] At the NT Developer Conference in July 1992, Allchin gave a presentation about the future Microsoft operating system. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) One of the main goals for Cairo was that users would be able to locate files based on their content, not only their name. Users would also have access to files stored on other machines on a network as easily as they had access to files on their own hard drives. Cairo was originally scheduled to ship in total in 1994 but was delayed repeatedly and then instead pieces of the technology were shipped in successive operating system releases. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) [4]

The Cairo and Windows NT groups were combined and Allchin created a new client and server organization focused on business and IT users. Allchin replaced Dave Cutler as the lead on Windows NT development from version 3. David Neil Cutler Sr (born March 13, 1942) is a noted American Software engineer, designer and developer 5 onwards. [3] This led to conflict with another Vice President, Brad Silverberg, who was in charge of the development of Windows 95, the operating system that was aimed at the personal computer market as opposed to Windows NT's business computer market. Brad Silverberg is an entrepreneur most noted for his work at Microsoft in 1990–1999 as Senior VP and product manager for MS-DOS Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented Graphical user interface -based Operating system.

In 1999, Microsoft re-organised its corporate structure. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The Consumer Division that maintained versions of Windows for home users and the Business & Enterprise Division that maintained Windows NT were combined into a single operating system division, the Platform Group. Allchin became Group Vice President of the new combined group meaning he was now responsible for managing the development of both versions of Windows. Finally with the release of Windows XP in 2001, both business and client versions of the operating system were based on the same code base. During this time the Server business grew hugely. [9][10] [11] [12]

On September 20, 2005 Microsoft announced that Allchin would become co-president, with Kevin Johnson, of a new Platform Products and Services Group that combines the old Platform Group, Server and Tools Group and the MSN Group. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Microsoft also announced that Allchin would be retiring after Windows Vista ships, leaving Kevin Johnson as president. Windows Vista (ˈvɪstə is a line of Operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and business desktops [13]

Bill Gates summarized Allchin:

“ "He's a brilliant technologist, visionary, and a strong leader. "[4] ”

Allchin was a member of the Senior Leadership Team at Microsoft -- the small group responsible for developing Microsoft's core direction along with Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. He was known to be blunt, technical, and straightforward.

Controversies

Running the most profitable product areas within Microsoft caused Allchin to be included in many negotiations and disputes along with his business and technical leadership responsibilities.

During the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial, emails sent by Allchin to other Microsoft executives were entered as evidence by the government lawyers to back up their claim that the integration of Internet Explorer and Windows was more to do with their competition with Netscape Communications Corporation than innovation. United States v Microsoft There were many civil actions taking place in May 18 1998 Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company [3]

During the Caldera v. The SCO Group Inc ( TSG, informally SCO;) is a software company formerly called Caldera Systems and Caldera International. Microsoft case, emails from Allchin to Bill Gates were introduced as evidence. One email from September 1991, included Allchin telling Gates that, "We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger. "[14]

In August 1998, Allchin asked an engineer named Vinod Valloppillil to analyse the open source movement and the Linux operating system. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Valloppillil wrote two memos that were intended for Senior Vice-President Paul Maritz (at the time, the most senior executive after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer). Paul Maritz (born 1955 is CEO of VMware Corporation (NYSEVMW and a past senior executive at Microsoft. Steve Anthony Ballmer (born March 24 1956 is an American Businessman. Both memos leaked and became known as the Halloween documents. The so-called Halloween documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft memoranda on potential strategies relating to Free software, Open-source software [3]

On September 29, 1998, Allchin was deposed to respond to the testimony of Professor Edward Felten. Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Edward William Felten (born March 25, 1963) is a professor of Computer science and public affairs at Princeton University. He later testified in court from February 1 to February 4, 1999. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Some of his testimony centered on whether Internet Explorer could be removed as stated by Felten or not. While ultimately Allchin proved his written testimony was correct in court[15], a video-taped demonstration created by Microsoft Attorneys supposedly illustrating Allchin's points was shown to have been misleading. [15] David Boies believed it was an honest Microsoft Attorney mistake, but avoidable nevertheless. [15]

In May 2002, Allchin testified before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly during the settlement hearing between Microsoft and the nine states and the District of Columbia, resulting from the United States v. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Microsoft antitrust trial. Allchin was called to testify on two issues, however it was the first that gained the most publicity. In relation to the issue of sharing technical API and protocol information used throughout Microsoft products, which the states were seeking, Allchin testimony discussed how releasing certain information could increase the security risk to consumers. In computing, a protocol is a convention or standard that controls or enables the connection Communication, and Data transfer between two computing [16]

“ It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows operating systems, are used throughout the United States Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere. ”

According to exhibits filed in 2006 by the plaintiff in the case Comes v. Microsoft, Allchin wrote a memo in January 2004 to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer that was critical of Microsoft and Longhorn, saying that they had lost their way and comparing them to Apple whom he believed had not. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics

“ I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications are, and really understanding what the most important problems [our] customers face are. I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that doesn’t translate into great products.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft. . . . Apple did not lose their way. . . . [17]

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Bibliography

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