Jim Allchin, group vice president of platforms at Microsoft, spearheads the software giant's much-ballyhooed -- and delayed -- push for Longhorn, the code name for the next generation of Windows.

States' attorney Kevin Hodges asked Allchin if he knew much about the Java Community Process (JCP). While Allchin said he had only a working knowledge of it, he also described it as relatively ...

Jim Allchin, to some Microsoft's biggest senior geek after Bill Gates, is retiring at the end of 2006. His legacy: Windows on almost every desktop. The 53-year-old Allchin joined Microsoft in 1990, ...

If new features won't get you to upgrade to Vista, security enhancements should, Windows chief Jim Allchin has urged. Microsoft has already touted the bells and whistles it is putting into Windows ...

COMMENTARY -- Jim Allchin has a thing about video. The Windows chief is a brilliant engineer, keeper of Redmond's crown jewels, and easily the most powerful person at Microsoft after Bill Gates and ...