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Michael Pilarski was a Chief of Microsoft's embedded division between 2001 and TBC. He succeeded a chief that I do not anything about but know has to exist for this timeline to make sense.
Early Life (WIP)[]
Michael was born 29 Oct 1976 in Oborniki, Poland to the Polish Pilarski family (part of the Wilhelm family, which came from rich Swedish migrant Gotfrid Wilhelm, who came to Poland in the 19th century). His parents are Mary Pilarska and Casimir Pilarski. He went to the Polish Noblists' Primary School in Goscieyevo (Polish and official name: Szkoła Podstawowa im. Noblistów Polskich w Gościejewie), where he was called insane and a dreamer (he drew what resembles a palmtop in 1988).
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He moved to the Seattle area starting on Feb 12 1995 and finishing the movement on Feb 24 1995 because of job prospects and general optimistic attitudes of Poles towards America during this time.
Early work at Microsoft[]
Michael Pilarski gets hired by Microsoft on Mar 15 1995, getting into the Windows CE kernel designed for mobile devices due to technical constraints in August 16 1995. He had problems with integrating into American culture, with people actually assuming he's communist and "a vodka-drinking gopnik", fueling his determination, although who said this quote is still unknown. His family went into sorrow and relationships in Poland were delegated to just letters (which helped to cheer them up, as they knew he existed).
He then gets promoted multiple times due to him being a visionary. His first promotion is to team leader on Apr 29 1996, as he did around 1.6x more work than the median software developer in the mobile division.
His next promotion was from team leader to operations manager of Windows CE on Jan 15 1998. He then gets promoted to manager proper of Windows CE (that division had more than just devs) on Feb 29 2000 (comes from a joke of him getting promoted on Feb 29, which means basically never in metaphor, but happened on this day). He then becomes Chief of Microsoft's Embedded Division on May 18 2001, but not without challenges. On May 11 2001, a week before his promotion, he made these promises in light of the ruin caused by the dotcom bubble, the lack of success of Pocket PC in general, and the threat of Symbian and Palm OS:
- He will fix the UI and UX of Pocket PC 2002 before launch
- He will make styli optional
- He will transition the Pocket PC and H/PC ecosystem to using flash storage instead of ROM
- He will focus on Windows CE 4 as the next OS
- He will replace H/PC 2000
- He will make these systems work on budget devices
Work as Chief of Microsoft's Embedded Division[]
The first thing he did as Chief of Microsoft's Embedded Division is fulfill those promises. WIP