Windows Core Programmer Calls it Quits

“…Short was a key member of Microsoft’s Core Operating System Division (COSD) team. COSD is charged with “the design, development and testing of the core components of the Microsoft Windows operating system: the operating system core, virtual machine technology, input/output subsystems and the core device drivers,” according to Short’s (still-existent) bio on Microsoft’s corporate Web site.COSD was created in December 2003 under former Microsoft President Jim Allchin’s watch to ensure Windows “engineering excellence.” In forming COSD, Allchin hand-picked a team, almost all of whom were Windows client and/or server veterans with impressive and lengthy pedigrees, to focus on improving the core components of Windows. Specifically: the kernel, I/O (input/output) system; core devices; setup; and all the build properties.”

(Ironically, Jim is also the fellow who quit Microsoft the day Vista was released and had warned Gates that Vista sucked in Comparison to Apple’s OS X) Read the full story at All About Microsoft