Microsoft's Box Riffs on Life Inside The Empire
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft's XML Architect, Indigo maven and Band on the Runtime front man recently talked up Web services, SOAs and more. Microsoft XML Architect Don Box signed on with Microsoft in January, 2002, after a long career of consulting and writing about Microsoft from the outside. Box co-founded the software think tank and training company DevelopMentor. He is the author of several books on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM), one of the precursors to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), XML and .Net. He also is one of a handful of authors of the original SOAP specification.
The free-spirited Box dabbles in fashion, with a line of underwear called "Don Boxers." He's also chief songwriter, singer and guitarist for "Band on the Runtime," a group of rock-playing geeks. At the recent Professional Developers Conference (PDC), Box didn't engage in any of his trademark speaking stunts, such as wearing his boxers on stage, or having a back drop of soap bubbles (unless you count calling Group VP Jim Allchin "code monkey," during one of the keynote addresses as something other than a career-endangering move).