About the author
Steven Sinofsky is a respected technologist and business leader, Steven Sinofsky is an investor, adviser, teacher, and writer. He began his career at Microsoft in 1989. Sinofsky joined Microsoft fresh out of graduate school as a software engineer when only one in 10 US households had a PC, almost no one had email, and the internet as we know it had not yet been conceived. Starting in Development Tools (software used by programmers to create software), Sinofsky worked on the first version of the new programming language C++ for the nascent Windows platform. He was Bill Gates's
technical assistant during the development of Windows 95 and Windows NT and the rise of internet as we know it today. He then joined the newly formed Office Product Unit and, for twelve years and six releases, rose to senior vice president leading all of Office product development. Sinofsky was tapped to bring order- and innovation-to the Windows division as president. He served as president of the Windows division through 2012, delivering two major releases of Windows, Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as the creation of Microsoft Surface and online services such as Outlook.com and OneDrive.