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.

The 53-year-old Allchin joined Microsoft in 1990, initially working on the company’s networking product strategy. He came from Banyan Systems, where he had been the architect of the now-defunct Vines ...

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 ...