Ziyan Zhou


  • Windows 7 Released to Maufacturing

    Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky announced Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 RTM and signed the gold DVDs today at the MGX in Atlanta.
    Meanwhile, Windows component teams were having their own RTM parties back here in Redmond. Some two hundred people crowded in the break room right outside of my office to celeberate the achievements [...]

  • Starting at Microsoft

    Just started this week at Microsoft as a summer intern.

    My position is Software Development Engineer in the Core Networking Team of Core OS Division (COSD). Our team owns Windows Core Networking APIs and technologies such as Winsock, TCP/IP stack, WFP, IPsec, IPv6, WSK, WinINet, Http.sys, WinHttp, QoS, and System.Net. And my job for the summer [...]

  • Long-term Sustainable Growth of the Technology Giant

    An analysis of Microsoft’s Form 10-K filed in July, 2008
    Microsoft Corporation, a multi-billion dollar business committed to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential, provides technologies in software, services, hardware and solutions that transform the way people work, play and communicate.
    There are five operating segments in Microsoft: Client, Server and [...]

  • Windows 7 is nicely done!

    I love Windows 7 so far. It looks like the design has improved quite a bit.

    I love the new taskbar that gives a sense of freshness. Also the window thumbnail preview is really cool, just as they showed in PDC2008. Everything is looking good.
    I haven’t tried the homegroup feature yet, since I don’t have another WIndows [...]

  • Recently

    School has started again.
    This quarter, I am taking Hardware Description Languages, Parallel Computing I in grad-level, Cryptography, Industrial Organization, and Intro to Philosophy. With the lab requirement for HDLs and the grad-level course, It is going to be even more intense than last quarter.
    Also I changed my mind about staying in the states through Christmas, [...]

  • Bonjour Paris

    This year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup Worldwide Final has taken place in Paris, France. I was representing United States, leading a team of three to participate in the Software Design category, the biggest and possibly toughest category. I had been to Paris three time in my life before. But this trip still made me really excited. [...]

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