After 5 years of being immersed in software distribution problem space I have just move on to a new challenge of working for India Development Center.
I will be based in Redmond and will coordinate the efforts of my team in Hyderabad, India with the rest of the Windows team here in Redmond. It is really hard to leave my old team. We have been through a lot together and accomplished great things. I have been incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with such a smart, dedicated and customer focused team. I joined Windows Update team in February of 2000 a week before Windows 2000 launched. Back then we had very little infrastructure and processes to keep the site up-to-date and running. Along the way we developed an infrastructure that over 100 million customers use to keep their PCs up-to-date and secure. I have always felt great about the reach that my work has. Hardly anyone that I talk to has not used or is not currently depending on Windows Update and Auto Update to keep thier PC secure. We also developed a great solution for the corporate administrators to keep the machines in their network patched. That product, SUS, has been adopted by more than 200,000 customers; we have received great feedback about its simplicity to use and its robustness.
In the past five years I worked on five major product releases:
Windows update corporate site (no loner exists)
Windows Update site (V4) and Windows Update Catalog site (V4)
Windows Update site (V5)
Software Update Services
Windows Update Services
Another accomplishment that I feel great about is when I convinced the powers to be that setting up a Wiki site would be a great complement for our product. It has been great seeing the
http://wus.editme.com flourish with activity.
I will be traveling to India often and that would be a great opportunity for me to take some amazing pictures and work with university students on some special projects.
I am looking forward to the upcoming years .....