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:00:34: Can you share a little bit about your background? "....I am a Principal Consultant at a company called Infront Consulting Group. Infront focuses on the deployment and integration and customization of different Microsoft Systems Center technologies within large corporate enterprise environments...

:00:46: How did you get to your current position at Microsoft and what key lessons can you share from your long history of successes? "....I have a broad experience across many fields that I see as triangulating between education, intellectual property publishing and technology...." :01:54: Can you...

:00:44: You have a long history with wide expertise in Windows operating systems and especially Windows Server 2008. Can you overview the Windows Server 2008 product suite? "...there are a number of editions which include Web, Standard, Enterprise, Data Center, Titanium and HPC. I primarily deal with...

:00:31: Can you provide a profile of your roles and challenges? "....I spend a lot of time working with folks outside the company to understand more about their challenges in using our products but also to encourage these folks to share their ideas and tips and stories about how they use our technology...

:00:48: Terry shares the catalysts that led him into computing. :01:58: Can you profile your current role at Microsoft? "....I think I've got the best job in the world. I get to work with some very brilliant people and give them some pointers (thorough and well documented) on how they can make their...

:00:37: Can you provide your insights into application migration and how that fits into a modern software development lifecycle and the 'software factory' approach. "....For me 'software factory' means taking the specialization of development to a slightly higher level so that it's going to encompass...

:00:31: Can you provide a profile of your roles and challenges? "....I'm involved with a firm called DigitalDefence and we specialize in penetration testing and incident response data forensics. These reflect the challenges that we are facing in the security environment right now...." :01:59: What...

:00:31: Can you provide a profile of your roles and challenges? "...My role is a Chief Technology Officer with a small technology company called Third Brigade which provides security products to keep your server safe. But I'm more or less an industry spokesman for this type of technology....speaking...

:00:42: Can you provide a profile of your roles and challenges? "....My role is to travel around the world and to speak with security executives and the IT professionals that work for the security executives and evangelize the Microsoft security message.....and to gather feedback on what Microsoft is...

:00:30: Can you provide a profile of your roles and challenges? "....We write software for clients and provide website hosting for our clients. Our challenges are to keep our software and our servers secure and to educate our clients and our staff about security...." :01:00: What are your recommendations...

:00:34: Can you provide a profile of your roles and challenges? "....My roles have changed over the years but I have faced a lot of the same challenges....One of the commonalities across all of them is a simple question - 'do you want to be compliant or secure?' What I've discovered over the years is...

:00:38: As Chief Security Advisor, can you provide a quick overview of your work? "....My role encompasses three big areas. I am the liaison between the Canadian government and Microsoft from a security perspective....Second, a big part of my role is education and awareness around security and that is...

:01:01: Dame Wendy Hall shares her thoughts on the extraordinary honour of knighthood bestowed upon her. :02:50: You continue to make significant historical contributions. How will your new status contribute to your vision for the world, society, industry, academia, and technology? "....I think it...

Interview Time Index (MM:SS) and Topic :00:44: You have a long history with wide expertise in client operating systems and especially Windows Vista. Can you overview the Windows Vista product suite? "....In my work I concentrate mostly on the business editions which are Vista Business, Vista Ultimate...

DISCUSSION: :00:39: What are you working on currently and can you provide some key lessons from this work that would be useful to IT Professionals? "....I'm working on virtualization courses right now and I will be presenting that to Microsoft partners and clients throughout 2009....Virtualization...

:00:42: Daniel shares several stories involving Windows Client Operating Systems from his early experiences with computers. :03:55: What hard-to-find tips do you have for IT Pros who are supporting the major Windows Client Operating Systems? "....One of the interesting aspects of Microsoft's vast...

:00:48: Reza shares what triggered his initial interest in computing science. :02:36: What does it mean to be a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)? "....The MVP program has opened a whole new world of interests for me....It has given me the opportunity to associate with a group of talented...

:00:38: What triggered your initial interest in computing? "....Being able to combine an interest in technology with any industry or sector, and being able to create something from nothing using software was a real selling point for me...." :01:15: Pat profiles how he got to his present position in...

: 00:34: Cathy, we can learn from your long history of successes. Can you profile how you got to your present position and what your current role entails? "....I often tell people that what I do is 'to help leaders get from intention to action'. That's primarily what I do on a day to day basis and I...

:00:43: What triggered your initial interest in computing? "....My interest in computers started with a thing called Project INTREX (Information Transfer Experiments) at MIT where we built some of the first computer-like controllers with the first commercialized seeds from Fairchild and Texas Instruments...

:00:38: From an ITAC and a personal perspective, what do you hope to achieve in 2009? "....To navigate through this period (economic slowdown) and to make sure that we as an industry and the public policy makers don't take our eyes off the ball on the longer term issues that are essential to our future...

:00:41: Stephen talks to Kelly about his contributions during the World War II. Kelly talks about his involvement, as a third year undergraduate student, teaching newly enlisted airmen, who were about to take a very secret radar course, about electricity and magnetism. :03:02: Kelly talks about his...

:00:52: The industry is changing. What advice would you give to IT professionals to stay on top of what is happening in the industry in order to position them and their organization to benefit from these trends? "....Part of it comes down to how people get information and exchange ideas....One of the...

:00:31: Can you give some comments or tips on each of the following: Authentication, Phishing and counter-measures, Click-fraud, The human factor in security, Cryptography, Network security, Protocol design? ":00:43: Authentication: ...Authentication is one of the fundamental components that helps...

:00:50: As Chief Security Advisor, what does your work entail? Can you detail some of the research areas, some of the challenges/problems and some solutions? "....Most of my time is spent working as the interface between the Canadian government and the larger enterprises and Microsoft from a security...