With Windows Vista about to be released to manufacturing, Windows boss Jim Allchin decided to start blogging about the forthcoming operating system.

In a first post to the Windows Vista Blog, Allchin declares the Address Space Layout Randomization security technology his favorite feature of Windows Vista. The technology prevents security attacks against addresses spaces that are easily predicted.

07 Nov 2006

But instead of surging overindulging in the technology he quickly moves on to sing the praises of Remote Assistance instead. The tool allows remote users to take over control of a system to solve maintenance issues. For a company that is big about blogging, Allchin is an exeption more than the rule. The company's top executives have famously avoided the blogging wave the swept through the company in the past years.

Bill Gates nor Steve Ballmer have a blog. Office boss Steven Sinofsky stopped blogging last March after he changed jobs within Microsoft. Ray Ozzie, who will replace Bill Gates as the company's chief software architect, last posted on his blog in April.

Whatever the reasons they may have to shy away from their blogs, few would apply to Allchin. After heading up the Windows group since 1999, Allchin is set to retire in 2007 with Sinofsky taking over.

Jim Allchin at the Professional Developer Conference last year

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