Meet Dona Sarkar, the new head of the Windows Insider program replacing Gabe Aul

[Batu69]

She has been “waiting for this job for 11 years

 

Dona Sarkar with the Windows team

 

Windows 10 Insiders have grown to associate the vice president of WDGE engineering systems, Gabe Aul, as the face of the program. Through countless Twitter postings and Windows blog posts, Gabe has helped navigate the conversation of Windows 10 development during the brightest of times and darkest of issues and delays.

 

Today, someone else will be taking the mantel from Gabe and is being shouldered with the rather unenvious position as head of the Windows 10 Insider program. In what may be one of his last few public appearances involved with the Insider program, Gabe Aul took to the Windows Experience Blog to introduce the programs new lead, Dona Sarkar.

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Meet Dona Sarkar

I have worked with Dona for many years and think she is the perfect person to guide the Windows Insider Program forward. Her technical expertise, passion for customers, and commitment to listening to feedback is unmatched. She has deep roots in Windows and started her Microsoft career as a software engineer during Windows Vista where she owned several device-heavy features such as AutoPlay, Bluetooth, and Blu-ray integration into Windows. During Windows 7 and Windows 8, she owned the search end-to-end experience as well as a handful of other things including File Explorer and Open/Save dialogs. During Windows 8.1, she got to work on “magic” aka the Roaming/Backup/Restore platform for settings and app data. She also did a stint as the product lead for the Windows Driver Signing portal for Windows 10. Most recently, Dona has been working on the HoloLens developer experience, including the documentation, sample code, forums, Holographic Academy and #HoloHacks, the very first community driven holographic hackathon series. Dona is incredibly excited to take on this new role, and even when we first started talking about the possibility she was sharing great ideas and insights on where we can improve on the program going forward. She says that she has been “waiting for this job for 11 years”.

 

From Gabe’s glowing endorsement, it seems, Insiders are in good hands. Dona, similar to Gabe will be a mouthpiece for the engineers and developers working on Windows 10 and her new title along with Gabe’s public retreat shouldn’t affect the current schedule for Windows 10 development.

 

The reason for the shift in leadership has to do with Gabe’s growing list of responsibilities and an attempt to offer Insiders a leader who can give a 100% rather than a disinterest in the job.

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Over the past few months, I’ve realized that I cannot give 100% to my main job on the ES, and also give 100% to the Windows Insider Program. And this program is so important to me that I really want to have the leader spending 100% of their time on it. So the time has come for me to pass the torch to a new leader for the program, and I’m thrilled to introduce you to her today.”

 

As a lead on the engineering of Windows 10, Gabe promises to be just around the corner, albeit, in a much more behind-the-scenes capacity. While today’s news appears on the surface to be a monumental shift, Insiders should remember that Gabe will continue to be doing exactly what he has before, the only difference is, now Dona will be our new Windows 10 Insider meme mascot.

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@dscammell Not today, but @donasarkar is already writing her first build post… stay tuned!

— Gabriel Aul (@GabeAul) June 1, 2016

 

On a side note, she seems to be picking up exactly where Gabe left off, with no new build to present Insiders today. For those interested in staying up to the minute on build news, visit Dona’s Twitter account as she works on her first build post.

 

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Here’s why veteran Microsoft engineer Dona Sarkar is taking over the Windows 10 Insider program

[pc71520]

Now, I know why Windows 10 looks so... 

[Jordan]

Who's interested anyway!

[lordnsane]

Yup, doesn't matter how she looks, main thing is how she'll benefit the worsening situation for microsoft,

btw, she doesn't look that bad, has got good "assets".

[pc71520]

18 hours ago, jordan4x said:

Who's interested anyway!

I am interested in Windows 10; not her...

[steven36]

On undefined at 2:19 PM, straycat19 said:

 

You need glasses my friend. She makes the ugliest girl I ever took out look like a beauty queen.

it's not about the looks buddy  as much money as she makes id date her , I'm like Microsoft im all about the money ..At lest she has her own money most the time if you find a woman thats looking for a man on the internet something is wrong with her no matter how she looks because  most women dont need the internet to find a man even gold diggers dont.

 

On undefined at 9:44 AM, pc71520 said:

I am interested in Windows 10; not her...

You ever hear of Google or Bing ? Its the place were they spread Microsoft PR since windows 3.0  were  a 100 journalist write the same story a 100 times everyday and just change the words around a little . It's sort of like Windows witch every O/S is just rehash of the O/S before , but  Windows 10 news is just rehash of the original article . Google Windows 10 and knock yourself out  i find the comments in the the topics at blogs  fanboys vs the masses more amusing than the same stories about windows 10 that get posted over and over everyday  . I wonder how much Microsoft spent on advertising  in the last 11 months ?

[steven36]

1 hour ago, pc71520 said:

nor she does a good job

with Preview releases.

There called preview releases for a reason, even so called stable releases caused many  people trouble . If you install a preview release there there for you to help them fix bugs , there not meant  to be used for a production O/S . They warned everyone months ago that preview releases would become very unstable even, When ever i test a beta O/S  I ether stick it on another hhd or test it in VM. I'm not going mess up none of my production O/S.So you cant blame Dona Sarkar because you volunteered  to work for free for a company worth $68.6 billion and mess up you're production O/S in the process  it's written in there toss you agreed if it messes up when you installed it there's nothing you can do  . What do you expect is going to happen if you keep installing new unstable versions of  something ? You're going to  run into regressions thats whats going happen if you push you're luck . Windows 7 and Windows 8.x  only had one major upgrade in  10 years . Back before Windows 10 came out as a production release almost a year ago most people were testing it in VM . So why would you install a preview release now and think it will be stable?  There labeled preview not a Production Release 

[pc71520]

The Instability of the Preview releases is expected.

 

What Features Microsoft decides to Add/Remove

to the Preview releases is what worries me...

[steven36]

14 minutes ago, pc71520 said:

The Instability of the Preview releases is expected.

 

What Features Microsoft decides to Add/Remove

to the Preview releases is what worries me...

I would not worry about it bro tell Redstone update one comes out July 29th if they add features you dont like to a production release there's not really nothing you can do but switch back to what you had before windows 10 or use another O/S .  I run in to this  a lot in 2015 and 2016 and not just on windows  so i just use what i have and dont worry about things that updates dont run out for years from now .  2019-2023  who cares about this far off? 

[pc71520]

Should You Use the Windows 10 Insider Previews? (by howtogeek)

[Jogs]

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. 
 

[Holmes]

Shes a beauty and hopefully a beast at her job.