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1. Class Action lawsuit against Microsoft denied

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 February 2009

   ... were unable to prove that the company's actions harmed a plurality.Still, on a case-by-case basis it is likely Microsoft will lose as a revealing email by Jim Allchin indicates quite clearly Microsoft ...

2. Top 10 people in technology

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Sunday, 28 December 2008

   ... correcting the mistakes his predecessor Jim Allchin made. Early Windows 7 builds suggest it will be more than a big Vista patch, with innovative features like a new taskbar with live task thumbnails and ...

3. Plaintiffs to get 3 hours with Ballmer in Vista lawsuit

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 23 November 2008

   ... other members of the management. Ultimately, the “the issue” was resolved by others, they said. Microsoft noted that then co-president Jim Allchin and senior vice president Will Poole - both have left ...

4. More dirt in Vista Capable case surfaces

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 16 November 2008

   ... gave in to Intel’s complaint and graciously enabled the chip company to get rid of its 915-based supply. An email sent from Steve Ballmer to then Windows-in-charge-executive Jim Allchin stating that Poole ...

5. Windows 7: Clean UI, multi-touch and more speed

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 28 October 2008

   ... a much more visible face for Microsoft in the future. Sinofsky’s baby is Windows 7 and the way he presented, described and approached Windows 7 is substantially different than his predecessor, Jim Allchin, ...

6. Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart served subpoenas in Vista Capable lawsuit

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 28 March 2008

   ... system's marketing campaign. IBM, HP Acer, Dell, Toshiba and Sony have also been sent subpoenas in the case, as has former Microsoft executive Jim Allchin.   In a recently released e-mail from 2006, ...

7. Microsoft caught pants down in Intel love affair

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 29 February 2008

   ... how little the PC buyer was considered in this (published) communication.    Jim Allchin, who wanted Vista to become his masterpiece at Microsoft, was part of the communication, but apparently ...

8. Microsoft exec: Vista-Capable PCs are "junk"

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Wednesday, 13 February 2008

   Top Microsoft execs have admitted that "Windows Vista Capable" PCs, which can run only the most basic version of Vista, are "junk," with Jim Allchin, then co-president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services ...

9. Microsoft's Jim Allchin stresses that Vista users will need anti-virus

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 13 November 2006

   Jim Allchin, Microsoft's co-president of Platforms and Services, is clarifying some of his earlier statements by saying that most Windows Vista users will need some form of antivirus. During a telephone ...

10. Microsoft releases Windows Vista RC2 to beta testers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 06 October 2006

    ... Windows Vista Customer Preview Program. According to Microsoft, about 100,000 users will get a version that fixes "many bugs" that were found in RC1. Platforms and services co-president Jim Allchin wrote ...

11. Five million users to participate in Windows Vista RC1 test

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 September 2006

    ... worldwide." According to Jim Allchin, co-president of the firm's platforms & services division, the RC1 was "done" last Friday. In a message posted on the Windows Vista Team blog, the executive wrote ...

12. Microsoft: Windows Vista RC 1 "complete"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 01 September 2006

    Microsoft took a major step towards the release of Windows Vista on Friday, when Jim Allchin, co-president of the firm's platforms & services division, announced that Windows Vista RC1 is done!"  ...

13. Microsoft introduces a search tool for all its search tools

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 May 2006

    ... enterprise-level product falls under the purview of Johnson and the Platforms and Services Division, which he shares with outgoing co-president Jim Allchin. The pre-existing Windows Live Search product ...

14. The Vista delay: Why would Microsoft cancel Christmas?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 23 March 2006

    ... perplexing. "I think that [Microsoft] has just successfully stopped PC sales until January," remarked Michael Cherry, lead analyst at Directions on Microsoft, who attended co-president Jim Allchin's analyst's ...

15. Microsoft divisional realignment boosts Windows Live, bolsters Ozzie

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 23 March 2006

    ... during a more massive shakeup, co-president Kevin Johnson will continue to share power with Jim Allchin, who still plans to retire once Vista is released to manufacturing. When that happens, Johnson will ...

16. Vista in 2007: Microsoft delays an OS, postpones an industry

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 March 2006

    According to Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, the delay of the release of Windows Vista until after the holidays was requested by partners, who shall remain unnamed, and who apparently believed a January ...

17. Microsoft delays consumer editions of Windows Vista until January 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 21 March 2006

    ... said co-president for platforms and services Jim Allchin in this afternoon's statement, "and we are on track to deliver on both." Allchin leads the company's business platforms, not the consumer side, ...

18. Microsoft to "encourage" use of ECC memory for Vista

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 06 February 2006

    ... "serious problem" While Microsoft is soft-paddling the ECC issue to the outside, the message to analysts appears to be different. According to Enderle, at least Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's ...

19. Microsoft: No delays to Vista Beta 2, 2006 release

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 02 February 2006

    Clearly denying press reports that Microsoft would not be releasing a Beta 2 edition of Windows Vista, a company spokesperson yesterday told TG Daily that comments made last week by co-president Jim Allchin ...

20. Microsoft hints at delay to Vista

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 30 January 2006

    ... quality expectations. Microsoft's Jim Allchin - the man most associated with the development of the operating system - said he still expected Vista to ship at the of the year, about the same time he was ...

21. Microsoft touts Vista's Restart Manager feature

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 05 December 2005

    ... to reboot the entire machine. Microsoft officials have not talked much publicly about this new feature, but Jim Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft's platform products and services division, recently ...

22. Microsoft announces executive shifts, new divisions; Allchin to retire in 2006

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 September 2005

    ... current Group Vice President, Jim Allchin, will also be promoted to the title of Co-president of the new platforms division. But he'll serve only until the release of Windows Vista in late 2006, and will ...

23. Microsoft to ship 32-bit version of Longhorn server

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 21 April 2005

    ... hardware platforms it would support with the server version of the operating system, due in 2007. Last week, Windows chief Jim Allchin said a final decision had not been made on a 32-bit version of the ...

24. Windows XP Professional x64 on track for March/April availability

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 02 March 2005

      Jim Allchin, group vice president of Microsoft's Platfroms Group, confirmed on Tuesday that the 64-bit edition of Windows Xp Professional will ship "within four weeks". Jim Allchin, group vice ...

25. Chipmakers say no to Intel RDRAM payola

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Sunday, 04 March 2001

      Among last week's headlines were several about Intel Corp.'s subsidy of Samsung Electronics' Rambus DRAM production. When Microsoft's top Windows OS man Jim Allchin recently said that Linux and ...

26. Red Hat challenges MS to debate

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Sunday, 04 March 2001

      When Microsoft's top Windows OS man Jim Allchin recently said that Linux and open-source software not only stifle innovation but are un-American, advocates of non-proprietary software reacted.  ...

27. PGP creator joins Hush

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 21 February 2001

    ... Communications. Microsoft Corp. representatives are trying to calm angry reactions to their Platforms Group VP's statement last week that "open source is an intellectual-property destroyer." Jim Allchin ...

28. US anti-spam law proposed

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Saturday, 17 February 2001

    ... have characterized Linux in quite different terms, ranging from their biggest competition to a passing fad. Microsoft Windows operating-system chief Jim Allchin, however, seems to be the first to imply ...

29. Windows 2000 goes gold - at last

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 16 December 1999

    ... will be available to the public beginning on Feb. 17. In an interview with ZD Radio, Microsoft Platforms Group vice president Jim Allchin said that the design team accepted "no trade-offs" in quality in ...