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Jeff Sandquist
Jeff Sandquist
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Sandquist is a Technical Evangelist for Windows and is one of the people behind Channel 9. Channel 9 combines video blogging, wikis, RSS, and a forums-based comments engine to bring Microsoft and its developers closer together through transparency and dialogue. Channel 9 was inspired by United Airline’s in-flight audio channel of the same name in which passengers can listen in to hear pilots and Air Traffic Control guiding flights in real-time. Jeff and team launched Channel 9 as a rogue effort inside Microsoft on April 5, 2004 without use of traditional advertising or media to promote it. To date, an average of 700,000 developers have visited the site each month including a growing base of over 5,700 developers who post regularly to the site.
Sandquist has been at Microsoft for seven years partnering with developers worldwide helping them succeed on Microsoft platforms such as Windows, IE, .NET, and the upcoming Windows “Longhorn.”