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David Treadwell recently joined the Windows Live Core effort where he will work on defining and implementing the next-generation Live services platform. This start-up effort will define the vision and create the implementation for cloud-based platform services that will allow the creation of compelling applications that make deep use of network-based information.
Before joining the services platform effort, Treadwell ran the .NET Developer Platform team responsible for Microsoft�s new managed developer platform, which includes the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime (CLR), the core runtime platform of the .NET Framework, the .NET Compact Framework which brings the platform to small devices and cell phones, central aspects of WinFX, the Microsoft Web server Internet Information Services (IIS), the ASP.NET, the Windows and .NET Framework SDKs, as well as several centralized Developer Division teams, such as User Education, International, and Engineering. In this role, Treadwell oversaw the successful releases of the .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1 releases now used by 56 percent of enterprises.
Prior to his work on .NET, Treadwell was a developer for file server and TCP/IP technologies Windows NT, the development manager for Internet Information Server, and he played an important role in the establishment of Microsoft's .NET Framework strategy for developers. Treadwell graduated from Princeton University in 1989 with a BSE in Electrical Engineering and joined Microsoft in July 1989.
Treadwell has a son, David, and is married to Lynn, who is also employed at Microsoft. Treadwell's hobbies include taking photographs, triathlons, playing basketball with his son, and exploring the use of digital media technologies in the home. | 