Same job, new role

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After two years of working as the Setup and Communities PM on the Windows SDK, I'm switching over to a new role within my same team. I'm now taking on a whole set of new tasks:

  • Online release notes
  • Offline release notes
  • Vista logo compliance
  • APIScan
  • Headers & libs
  • SWI for headers & libs
  • Identifying and tracking new headers & libs in the OS
  • The Windows SDK's presence in the MSDN DevCenter

This might seem like a lot of disparate duties, but that's what will make the job fun and exciting for me. I'm really enjoying ramping up on the work - it's really fun taking on new challenges - but some of the scope of the tasks are a bit daunting. We have a SharePoint site that lists all the new Windows Vista APIs and contains over 8000 entries. It's hard to plan to manage a set of files that large, which can have issues or problems with each and every one of them.

Please, if you have any questions about Windows APIs, headers, libs or Win32 development using the Windows SDK, feel free to send me your question. Your questions will help me get educated on my new tasks.