Microsoft's core OS division: A status report
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Back in December 2003, Microsoft shuffled its Windows platforms group and created the unified Core Operating Systems Division (COSD). COSD's charter: To ensure Windows "engineering excellence." What's happened since then? Slowly but surely, COSD has been finding its way, according to one of the key movers and shakers on the COSD team, Rob Short, corporate VP of Windows Core Technology.
Allchin ended up hand-picking a team of people -- almost all of whom were Windows client and/or server veterans with impressive and lengthy pedigrees -- to focus on what are considered the core components of Windows. Specifically: the kernel, I/O (input/output) system; core devices; setup; and all the build properties.