Tracing Microsoft's Vista Capable Debacle

Photo by Kim Kulish
The Microsoft employees involved in the Vista Capable campaign go all the way to the top, CEO Steve Ballmer. Executives from the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant named in the following timeline are listed below, with our best estimates of their job titles during the course of the roughly two-year period charted in the unsealed discovery. Non-Microsoft employees appearing in the discovery are described as is relevant. All images originate from Exhibit A in Dianne Kelley and Kenneth Hansen v. Microsoft Corporation, proceeding at U.S. District Court in Seattle.

The main Microsoft employees named in the timeline are: Jim Allchin, Group VP, Platforms Group; Bob Aoki, Developer and Platform Evangelism; Steve Ballmer, CEO; David Berett, Group Manager, Retail Business Development; Shanen Boettcher, Vista product manager; Brad Brooks, CVP for Windows Consumer Product Marketing; Eric Charbonneau, MCSE and author, Eric Charbonneau's Direct Reports; Mark Croft, marketing director; Gregg Daugherty, business analyst, Hardware Group; Jon DeVaan, SVP, Engineering Strategy; Scott Di Valerio, VP, Corporate Controller; Kevin Eagan, GM, OEM Marketing; Jim Hebert, GM, Windows Server Product Management Group; Will Johnson, unknown executive or associate; John Kalkman, GM, OEM & Embedded Engineering; Anantha Kancherla, unknown executive or associate; Patrick Kennedy, unknown executive or associate; Jawad Khaki, CVP, Windows Hardware Ecosystem; Steven Leonard, account manager; Mike Nash, CVP, Windows Product Management; Will Poole, SVP, Windows Client Business; Owen Roberts, Sr. Director, Sales, Home and Retail Division; Robert Rutledge, Account Manager, Wal-Mart; Jon Shirley, member, Board of Directors; Mike Sievert, CVP, Windows Product Marketing; Steven Sinofsky, SVP, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group; Carl Sittig, GM, OEM Americas; Rajesh Srinivasan, marketing director; Hakon Strande, project manager, Windows Audio/Video Excellence Team; Rick Thompson, corporate VP, Windows Live Advertising and Monetization Platforms; Bill Veghte, SVP, Online Services & Windows Business Group; Padmanand Warrier, Director of Mobile Services, Windows Mobile; Mike Ybarra, director of product management; Stephanie Ybarra, OEM account manager for Dell; Dina Yershova, unknown executive or associate.

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