27 Facts About James Allchin

James Edward Allchin was born on 1951, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States and is an American computer scientist, philanthropist and guitarist.

James Allchin assisted Microsoft in creating many of the system platform components including Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, server products such as SQL Server, and developer technologies.

James Allchin is best known for building Microsoft's server business and for leading foundational releases of Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

James Allchin is known for his leading role in the architecture and development of the directory services technology Banyan VINES.

James Allchin has won numerous awards in his career such as the Technical Excellence Person of the Year in 2001.

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Jim James Allchin led the Platforms division at Microsoft, overseeing the development of Windows client from Windows 98 to Windows Vista, Windows Server from NT Server 4.

James Allchin studied Electrical engineering at the University of Florida, but dropped out to play in a number of bands.

James Allchin later returned to the university and graduated with BS in Computer Science in 1973.

James Allchin returned to his studies, earning the degree of MS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1980.

James Allchin wrote a language-independent, portable file system while at Stanford.

In 1983, James Allchin was recruited to Banyan by founder Dave Mahoney, eventually being Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.

Bill Gates tried to recruit a reluctant James Allchin to join Microsoft for a year, yet successfully convinced him to join in 1990.

James Allchin is known for debugging systems remotely by having the person on the phone toggle in hexadecimal via front panel switches of early computers to correct problems.

However, James Allchin scrapped the project, citing the need to start fresh.

At the NT Developer Conference in July 1992, James Allchin gave a presentation about the future Microsoft operating system.

The Cairo and Windows NT groups were combined, and James Allchin created a new client and server organization focused on business and IT users.

James Allchin replaced Dave Cutler as the lead developer on Windows NT version 3.

James Allchin became the vice president of the new combined group.

James Allchin was diagnosed with cancer in late 2002 and took a leave of absence for part of 2003.

Microsoft announced that James Allchin would retire after Windows Vista shipped, leaving Kevin Johnson as the president.

James Allchin was a member of the Senior Leadership Team at Microsoft – a small group responsible for developing Microsoft's core direction along with Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.

In May 2002, Allchin testified before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly during the settlement hearing between Microsoft and the nine states involved in the United States v Microsoft antitrust trial.

James Allchin was called to testify on two issues, the first of which 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, James Allchin's testimony discussed how releasing certain information could increase the security risk to consumers.

James Allchin was critical of Microsoft relaxing its requirements for computers to carry the 'Vista Capable' badge.

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Today, James Allchin devotes his time to music, technology, and charity work.

James Allchin released his first album, Enigma, in 2009 calling the album a beta test.