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Anil Bhansali
General Manager, Windows & Windows Live Group, MSIDC

Anil Bhansali is the General Manager of the Windows and Windows Live Group in MSIDC. The Windows group has delivered on key features for Windows 7 in the areas of Networking, Wireless WAN, Client Virtualization and improving customer experience through work on inbox applications. The WinSE team services all the released versions of Windows. The Windows Live Team is working on a service centric approach which allows users to access any data and any application, at any time and on any device. The team is also working on building a platform for partner development, syndication and notification by SMS, mail and messenger.

Anil started his career at Microsoft in 1991 and was part of the Office division working on MS Excel for various releases. Prior to moving to MSIDC he was the Partner Development Manager of Windows Sharepoint Services. He relocated to India in 2003 as Director of Windows Live Platforms Services Group and was responsible for setting up and building the MSN and Live groups at MSIDC.

Overview

Keeping the world productive and secure

The mission of the Microsoft Windows Serviceability (WinSE) team is to deliver the best servicing experience in the form of Service Packs, Security Updates & HotFixes to all Windows customers around the world by focusing on innovation of better tools, services and solutions. We aim at keeping Windows installations secure, reliable, scalable and high on performance.


Teams

The WinSE team at MSIDC is responsible for servicing all released versions of Windows. The releases impact hundreds of millions of customers around the world. Windows has the largest share of the operating systems market. WinSE owns the charter of keeping the Windows platform safe & secure and using Windows as a medium to address the diverse needs of home and enterprise customers.

WinSE executes on its charter by engaging in three main lines of business: worldwide release of Security Updates to avoid vulnerabilities, HotFix releases to address specific customer issues and the Service Pack releases. With the “just works” expectations of our customers for anything we release, servicing Windows customers is one of the most important task for Microsoft.

The WinSE team works with Microsoft Security Response Center and keeps itself abreast of worldwide security research. WinSE delivers HotFixes to customers on various platforms ranging from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2008. On Service Pack front, the MSIDC team has successfully delivered releases such as the Update Rollup Pack on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows XP SP3, and Windows Vista/ Windows Server 2008 SP2 to millions of users worldwide.


Platforms serviced by MSIDC Windows Serviceability Team include:

  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT4

We Shipped

2009

  • Windows Vista/ Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

2008

  • Windows XP Service Pack 3
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We Shipped

2009

  • Windows Vista/ Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

2008

  • Windows XP Service Pack 3

2007

  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

2005

  • Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
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