Interview with Jim Allchin

Interview with Jim Allchin, Group Vice President: Microsoft Corporation



As group vice president of Microsoft Corp.’s Platforms Group, James (Jim) Allchin has overall responsibility for the product delivery, engineering and technical architecture for the Microsoft® Windows® operating system, Microsoft .NET, the Windows Server System and new media technology. He is also responsible for delivering the best developer tools, framework and support to fulfill the promise of .NET. His group’s mission is to build platforms software that consumers and businesses will make an integral part of their day-to-day activities.

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As group vice president of Microsoft Corp.’s Platforms Group, James (Jim) Allchin has overall responsibility for the product delivery, engineering and technical architecture for the Microsoft® Windows® operating system, Microsoft .NET, the Windows Server System and new media technology. He is also responsible for delivering the best developer tools, framework and support to fulfill the promise of .NET. His group’s mission is to build platforms software that consumers and businesses will make an integral part of their day-to-day activities.

Allchin is a member of the Senior Leadership Team, responsible for developing Microsoft’s core direction along with Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. He is also a member of the Business Leadership Team, which is responsible for broad strategic and business planning for the entire company.

Allchin joined Microsoft in 1990 with the initial charter of driving the company’s networking product strategy. Since then he has led the development and marketing efforts for a variety of Microsoft’s operating systems and other server systems.

Before joining Microsoft, Allchin helped start Banyan Systems Inc., where he was the principal architect of the VINES distributed network operating system. He spent more than seven years at Banyan, holding numerous executive management positions in development and marketing. Ultimately, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer.



While completing his doctorate in computer science in the early 1980s, Allchin was the principal architect of the Clouds distributed transactional, object-oriented operating system. Before that, he helped develop the DX series of operating systems for Texas Instruments Inc.

Allchin has attended the University of Florida, Stanford University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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