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Brian Arbogast is corporate vice president of the Windows Live Platform Development Group in the Microsoft Platforms and Services Division. His teams are responsible for developing the core technology behind Windows Live communications services, including mail, calendar, contacts, storage, instant messaging and VoIP functionality. He is also responsible for extending Live services to mobile devices and partners with network operators around the world to bring these compelling services to consumers. Finally, his teams are also focused on building a broad developer ecosystem around the Windows Live platform.
In addition, Arbogast serves as an executive sponsor for privacy, anti-spam and consumer-safety issues at Microsoft, focusing on best practices and enabling technologies. He has more than 15 years of experience in leading teams that deliver innovative software solutions.
Arbogast joined Microsoft in 1986 as a software developer. He was a technical lead on Microsoft Access 1.0, after which he left Microsoft and traveled extensively. He returned 15 months later as the group manager for Microsoft Access, and in 1996 built and led the team that delivered Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0. He gained responsibility for Microsoft Visual Studio in 1997, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Microsoft Office Developer in 1998, and MSDN in 1999. He was promoted to corporate vice president in early 2000 and has been helping Microsoft deliver compelling Web services to customers ever since.
Arbogast holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. | 