Welcome to Jeff's Surface Hardware Blog

Hi, My name is Jeff Westerinen, and welcome to my blog. I lead hardware development for Surface here at Microsoft, and I’ll be sharing some insights on Surface hardware from time to time here on this blog. We have some pretty talented people on our team, which consists of developers, testers and program managers. The developers are the ones that actually design the hardware – these folks are the electrical, mechanical and optical engineers that have created all of the electronics, the chassis and the vision and display systems. The testers are the people that take Surface hardware thru its paces, making sure that each and every component works as it should. Our program managers have many different kinds of tasks, including creation of specifications, managing the overall schedule and generally keeping things on track.

I’ll be posting some of my experiences with hardware development on Surface and sharing some of the latest news on the hardware front. I’ll also be including people on the hardware team on this blog, who can share some of their work with you directly.

I’m incredibly excited to be part of the Surface team. Every day brings a different set of challenges and experiences, and I hope to be sharing lots of this with you in the future.

Thanks for reading!

Jeff