Bill Hilf
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Bill Hilf is General Manager of Platform Strategy at Microsoft.
With a long background in open source, he has worked to build bridges between Microsoft and the Linux and Open Source communities both politically and also technically.
He previously worked at IBM[1] where he led their Linux technical strategy.
He has had a high public profile, including a Slashdot interview[2], speeches at events such as LinuxWorld, posts on the recently launched Microsoft Open Source Software Lab blog[3] and work promoting Windows PowerShell and the Unix support in Windows Server 2003 R2.
He was also interviewed on Lugradio and discussed in Season 3, episode 4[4]
[edit] See also
To understand why bridge-building was necessary see Internet News, ZDNet and [1][2] News.com].
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[edit] External links
- Biography at Microsoft
- Info about Microsoft's Linux/Open Source Software Lab
- Bill Hilf's blog