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News Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin has suggested some Vista users will not need to run any third-party antivirus software. Allchin made the comments in a telephone conference with reporters last week, according to betanews.com. [13 Nov 2006]
Longhorn: Is Allchin's Baby Worth the Wait?
White Paper Longhorn is so chock-full of code-names that it's difficult, if not impossible, to figure out what's what. WinFX, Indigo and Avalon all sound terribly important, but they don't give the user a clue as to what they will do. [05 Dec 2006]
"Rock solid" Vista ready to roll, says Microsoft
News Windows chief Jim Allchin said Microsoft has signed off on the code: "It's rock solid and we're ready to ship. Allchin said Vista will go on sale to consumers on 30 January. The French, Japanese and Spanish versions were actually signed off on... [09 Nov 2006]
Microsoft issues near-final Vista build
News Retiring Windows chief Jim Allchin announced the release Friday in an email to testers. In his note, which was also posted to the Windows Vista Team blog, Allchin said there are "a lot of improvements since Beta 2", which was released in May. [04 Sep 2006]
All change in Redmond as Microsoft does a reboot
News Microsoft has announced a sweeping reorganisation of the company into three new divisions, a shift that will lead to the retirement of long-time Windows development chief Jim Allchin. Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin will be co-presidents of the... [21 Sep 2005]
Gates was forced to rebuild Windows Vista
News Jim Allchin, group VP in charge of Windows, told the Wall Street Journal he dropped the bombshell last summer, simply telling Gates "It's not going to work". Longhorn was so complex that Microsoft's developers would never be able to make it run... [26 Sep 2005]
Judge to Microsoft: Show us your systems
News District Judge J Frederick Motz ordered the company on Thursday to interview attorneys and search for any record of discussions leading to a January 2000 email from Windows Group VP James Allchin in which he ordered Windows division employees to... [24 May 2004]
Microsoft wants Vista out the door by year's end
News Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft's platform, products and services division, said the company has engineered all the necessary features into Vista and that no major capabilities have been cut from recent test versions. [30 Jan 2006]
DoJ lands hammer blow on Microsoft
News But the company's laborious efforts foundered as DoJ lawyer, David Boies, showed Microsoft's third witness, senior VP, James Allchin, one of his own emails which seemed to contradict this line. Boies produced an email written by Allchin which... [03 Feb 1999]
Microsoft damaged by 'cut-and-paste' video evidence
News But as senior Microsoft executive, James Allchin watched from the witness box, the video demonstration went horribly wrong. DoJ lawyer, David Boies showed the court a sudden change in toolbar icons during the video, saying it proved that more than... [04 Feb 1999]
5 years ago...Microsoft hurt by 'cut-and-paste' video evidence
News But as senior Microsoft executive, James Allchin watched from the witness box, the video demonstration went horribly wrong. DoJ lawyer, David Boies showed the court a sudden change in toolbar icons during the video, saying it proved that more than... [04 Feb 2004]
No Windows Vista PCs until 2007
News Microsoft does not expect the move to affect this year's overall PC sales, Allchin said. As recently as January, Allchin expressed confidence Microsoft would make its deadline, although he reiterated his caveat that quality issues could lead to a... [22 Mar 2006]
Microsoft lets Longhorn out of the barn
News Such images can be rather small, but they offer a visual cue that aids in the searching process, Allchin said. But while the OS bears plenty of similarities to Tiger, Allchin stressed that Microsoft has broken new ground in Longhorn. [15 Apr 2005]
Ballmer: Settlement destroys our ability to "compete and innovate"
News Ballmer rejected both the proposed versions of the settlement by the nine states claiming Bill Gates, chairman, and Jim Allchin, group vice president of platforms, had professed the proposals as not technically feasible. [05 Mar 2002]
Microsoft reveals latest on Longhorn release
News Doing that, Allchin said, meant taking WinFS out of Longhorn. There is [still] so much capability in [Longhorn]," Allchin said. One of the things we're staggering is the Windows storage work," Jim Allchin, Microsoft's vice president in charge of... [31 Aug 2004]
