Moshe Dunie

[6] In his role, Dunie interacted with political and business leaders around the world promoting human rights.

[10] He collaborated with partners such as Intel, PC OEMs, application developers and enterprise customers, initiating a Rapid Deployment Program and extensive beta testing.

[9] Microsoft Israel R&D centre [11] and engineering groups in Europe and Asia reported to Dunie as an international extension of the Windows division.

[10][12][13] Eljim & Astronautics – In 1977 Dunie developed submarine real time software at Eljim Ltd. After Elbit purchased Eljim, Dunie joined Astronautics Ltd. As software team leader he was responsible for the development of the real-time software for the Israeli Kfir's airborne computer and for an advanced tactical computer for the General Dynamics F-16 fighter aircraft using bit-slice technology.

[10][12] Landis & Gyr Systems – In 1981 Dunie joined Landis & Gyr Systems in San Jose, Silicon Valley, first as a software developer and after a year as the software manager responsible for the development of a microprocessor based Supervisory and Data Acquisition (SCADA) master station managing the electric grid for electric utilities.

Dunie personally developed the real time operating system, the implementation of the DDCMP communications protocol, and parts of the UI.

Dunie led the Windows 2000 (NT 5) development team from the early design stage to code completion and final Beta release in December 1998.

[10][11] Dunie left the Windows Development team at the end of 1998 taking a well-earned sabbatical after delivering ten major products.

[3] In his email announcing Dunie’s departure Jim Allchin wrote “Moshe has done as much as anyone at Microsoft to build the amazing Windows asset that we have today.