Programming Windows: Bob Muglia Interview (Premium)

In May 2004, I interviewed Bob Muglia, Microsoft senior vice president of the Windows Server Division, about the Windows Server roadmap.
Bob Muglia bio, 2004
Bob Muglia is senior vice president of the Windows Server Division. He has business and development responsibility for Windows Server, as well as Microsoft’s enterprise storage and management products.

Muglia is a member of the Technical Senior Leadership Team, which is responsible for developing Microsoft’s technical direction. He is also a member of the Business Leadership Team, which is responsible for broad strategic and business planning across the company.

Since joining Microsoft in January 1988, Muglia has served in a variety of positions, including managing the development of the MSN network of Internet services and Microsoft Office family of business productivity applications, Windows Server applications, and productivity appliances such as Pocket PCs, eBooks, and Tablet PCs. In addition, Muglia helped to bring together the Visual Studio family of developer tools and drive the Win32 API, customer requirements, and the product specification for the Windows NT operating system.

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Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia is responsible for the development of Windows Server and communicating the company's Windows Server roadmap. I recently had dinner with Muglia and Windows Server senior director Jeff Price at Boston's historic Union Oyster House, where we discussed that roadmap and the features Microsoft hopes to include in the next several Windows Server versions. Here's what Muglia and Price had to say about the future of Windows Server.
Windows Server and DSI
Bob Muglia: It's been just over a year since we released Windows Server 2003, so I thought we'd give you some updates on that. You were at the launch last year, right?

Paul Thurrott: Oh yeah.

Bob: With this release, we started to talk about what Windows Server does for the cost of IT operations, and for IT infrastructure. That's when we rolled out the "Do more with less" concept. Ideally, we can help IT administrators save time and money while they're helping end-users. We're seeing, a little over a year into it, in our last quarter, we had about 30 percent growth, year-over-year. It's just a huge success, especially Small Business Server, which is very strong. So we're going to continue a theme over the next few years of trying to innovate along three major initiatives---Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), Trustworthy Computing, and .NET---all to drive a set of benefits for users that are pretty consistent. So we'd like to discuss how we're going to drive those initiatives over major and minor [Server] releases.

Paul: DSI comes up again and again these days, but I'm not quite sure that I understand what it is.

Bob: The whole concept behind DSI is how we can improve the manageability of systems. The approach that we have is to look at the different types of people who are involv...

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