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, speeches at events such as LinuxWorld, posts on the recently launched Microsoft Open Source Software Lab blog[2] and work promoting Windows PowerShell and the Unix support in Windows Server 2003 R2.

[edit] See also

• To understand why bridge-building was necessary see: [3][4][5][6]

[edit] References

• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/archive/bioBillHilf.mspx
• http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/aug05/08-10OpenSourceLab.mspx

[edit] External links

• Slashdot interview [7]
• Microsoft Open Source Software Lab ("Port 25") blog [8]
• NetworkWorld interview [9]