July 2004 - Posts

• Chris Dias

  Hi! I am the Group Program Manager for the Developer Division Release Team. I started at Microsoft a little more than 10 years ago doing product support (answering the phones) for Visual Basic 3.0, with a little 1.0, 2.0, and VBDOS thrown in for fun. Read More... Posted Friday, July 30, 2004 3:44 PM by release_team | 0 Comments

• Natalie's back from leave

  I just came back from a 5 month parental leave two weeks ago. I was terrified of the first week back; everyone told me it will be hard to all-of-the-sudden be away from my baby girl, but that it will get better later. It wasn’t as bad as I had prepared Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:10 PM by release_team | 1 Comments

• Introducing the Developer Division Release Team

  I suppose the first place to start in writing this blog is to begin with an introduction, including; who is part of the team, what is the “release“ team, and why they are so important for shipping software. At the 30,000 foot view, the release Read More... Posted Friday, July 23, 2004 3:17 PM by release_team | 2 Comments