The man behind the Windows marketing machine

MS-Watch | at | by Mike

Tom Button, the VP in charge of the Windows product management group, is set to deliver a Windows roadmap update at WinHEC this week. Who is Button? Read on.

With so much of Windows client's future in flux at the moment, you can bet the guy in charge of Windows marketing, product management and product planning is busy. And, indeed, Tom Button - the corporate VP in charge of the Windows product management group - is a tough man to pin down. We recently got some quality e-mail time with this 16-year Microsoft veteran. Mary Jo Foley, Editor of Microsoft Watch, asks the questions and Button provides the answers in this Q&A, edited for length.