August 2004 - Posts

• Driving to ZBB

  With the successful release of Whidbey Beta1 a few weeks ago, we’re now moving toward Beta2. The next key milestone between now and Beta2 is “ZBB.” It is critical to close down on open issues during the drive to ZBB, because doing so significantly impacts Read More... Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 11:49 AM by release_team | 18 Comments

• Driving our security push

  I’ve been spending the past two weeks focusing on pulling together our security efforts for Whidbey. See Soma's blog on security in our division. We have scheduled a multi week period before our Beta2 when the whole division will be focusing on security, Read More... Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 7:58 PM by release_team | 3 Comments

• Rick James RIP while the Dev Div VBLs live on under the careful guidance of the true Release Manager….

  Funk legend Rick James passed away at age 56 last week. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5625044/ Please join me in a moment of silence to remember the Super Freak of Funk… Developer Division VBL (Virtual Build Lab). The concept of Virtual Build Labs is replicating Read More... Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 7:22 PM by release_team | 2 Comments

• Releasing the Bits

  Since we started this blog I have spent some time updating my music collection. In fact, as I type this I am listening to the band “Shadow’s Fall”, really, really loud. There is nothing like some aggressive guitars to help stir the creative Read More... Posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:36 PM by release_team | 1 Comments

• Mike's Intro

  Where to begin… I am one of the Program Managers working on the release of Whidbey. I started at Microsoft just over 9 years ago and I have been working on the Developer Division Release team for just over 2 years now. Prior to the DevDiv Release Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 3:21 PM by release_team | 0 Comments

• What is "Shiproom"?

  Many I’m sure have heard the “Warteam” meetings at Microsoft and probably about as many stories to go along with them. Here in the Developer Division (DevDiv from here on out…shorter to type) we have a meeting called “Shiproom”, Read More... Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 9:44 AM by release_team | 4 Comments