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Jim Allchin bet on the right man
News Valentine reports directly to group VP Jim Allchin. While Dunie and Allchin regularly participated in stunts like cooking breakfast for the haggard Windows 2000 developers who found themselves chained to their desks on weekends and holidays...
[December 15, 1999, 6:10]
Microsoft's Jim Allchin takes a 'vacation'
News When Microsoft rolls out its Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS) architecture next week, about the only bigwig who won't be on stage is group vice president Jim Allchin. As a member of President Steve Ballmer's inner circle, the so-called...
[May 23, 2000, 13:13]
Microsoft aligns itself for a hosted future
News Microsoft on Tuesday announced a sweeping reorganisation of the company into three new divisions, a shift that will lead to the retirement of long-time Windows development chief Jim Allchin. Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin will be co-presidents of...
[September 21, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft opens door to India
Talkback Jim Allchin said so himself. This is a quote from Jim Allchin in the article found here: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,5264,00.asp So, either Jim Allchin was purgering himself in US court, or Microsoft is laying open security issues to other...
[January 27, 2004, 17:57]
Bill Gates on Apple security and other things
Blog Comment 'Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. Jim Allchin? The guy who just left Microsoft? The guy who wrote the 'I'd buy a Mac' email? I guess this is a case of - 'If you can't rewrite Wikipedia, rewrite history'.
[February 2, 2007, 16:23]
Ballmer leads new Microsoft witness list
News But headliners Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, and Jim Allchin, the senior executive over Windows, are still scheduled to testify. Besides Ballmer and Allchin, the remaining witnesses include: John Bennett, a computer science professor...
[April 30, 2002, 13:45]
Vista's journey isn't over yet
News Windows chief Jim Allchin was recently testing Vista's remote assistance feature from his house. I have to say that we've already met with them, and they were very focused on fixing the issue," Allchin said last week.
[November 13, 2006, 8:36]
Ironic exit: Microsoft's Maritz quits
News Maritz had recently stepped up to the Windows product plate after another group vice president, Jim Allchin, departed for more than four months on a sabbatical. Maritz was considered the peacemaker between two senior powerful executives, Brad...
[September 15, 2000, 8:29]
Microsoft deploys Linux watchers...
News The situation is not lost on Jim Allchin, Microsoft's senior vice president in charge of operating systems. Allchin says. Getting inside the head of our competitors is one of our best practices here at Microsoft," says Jim Ewel, a director of...
[May 21, 1999, 15:53]
A Year Ago: Microsoft deploys Linux watchers...
News The situation is not lost on Jim Allchin, Microsoft's senior vice president in charge of operating systems. Allchin says. Getting inside the head of our competitors is one of our best practices here at Microsoft," says Jim Ewel, a director of...
[May 22, 2000, 7:02]
Jim has stated customers do infact need antivirus software.
Talkback Jim Allchin has clarified his comments which were misinterpreted. Jim has stated customers do infact need antivirus software. Read here http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/10/windows-vista-defense-in-depth.aspx
[November 13, 2006, 9:03]
Allchin defends Vista's security credentials
News The argument between Sophos and Microsoft over the security of Windows Vista took another turn on Tuesday when Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin stepped in to try and calm things down. Allchin argued in a blog posting on Tuesday that this is...
[December 22, 2006, 11:14]
Peace in our time for Vista?
Leader Microsoft's outgoing co-president Jim Allchin either hasn't studied history, or is just so demob happy that he doesn't care anymore — he is set to leave Microsoft after Vista ships. To be fair to Allchin, he was referring specifically to the fact...
[November 10, 2006, 16:52]
The whys, whats and whens of Vista
News Microsoft's Jim Allchin, the group vice-president managing all Windows development work, spoke to ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com about the beta release of Vista, its features and limitations, and hurdles remaining before the software's...
[August 1, 2005, 13:25]
Windows XP nears the finish line
News The company on Saturday will issue Windows XP Release Candidate 2 -- the expected final testing version -- Microsoft Group Vice President Jim Allchin said on Friday during a media conference call. Allchin said Microsoft had no contingency plan...
[July 30, 2001, 8:54]
Microsoft tweaks Windows 2000
News The answer, according to Microsoft senior vice president Jim Allchin, is yes. Allchin explains the company is "running a stress test each day covering thousands of machines which randomly tests deeply all parts of the system.
[September 16, 1999, 9:08]
Lucky Jim
Blog We were diverted yesterday by Gizmodo's report (via TechFlash) on ex-Vista-honcho Jim Allchin's solo album, Enigma. So in a spirit of encouragement, let's offer up some song titles for Jim's 'difficult' second album.
[February 10, 2009, 10:47]
Zune gone
Blog People leave Microsoft all the time, but Lee is following Jim Allchin in waiting for their product to be launched before bailing out. Allchin was in charge of Vista, and you can see how that might have taken it out of a chap, but Lee was in charge...
[February 2, 2007, 14:31]
Kaspersky questions the value of parental controls
Blog The controls, which led last month to Microsoft's co-president Jim Allchin confidently asserting that he was happy to let his seven-year-old son on his locked down computer without antivirus, were roundly dismissed by Kaspersky product director...
[December 8, 2006, 14:00]
The whys, whats and whens of Vista
Talkback There were a lot of words missed out in this interview as large areas made no sense.unless ZDNET just took them out jim allchin has to have a poor grasp of english or a very racey thought process.
[August 9, 2005, 14:25]
