About the Authors

Sanjay Kulkarni, Microsoft Corporation   Sanjay is a program manager on the Excel Services team.

Jeff Wierer, Microsoft Corporation    is a senior product manager on the Windows High Performance Computing (HPC) marketing team. started at Microsoft Corporation in 1998 as a consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services. His other previous roles at Microsoft were technical product manager for Exchange Server 2000; senior technical product manager with Microsoft Business Process and Integration Division, where he worked on the vision, strategy and requirements for BizTalk Server 2004 and 2006; and senior product manager on the Office SharePoint Server 2007 team.

, Saltmine LLC    is a senior .NET Architect with Saltmine LLC.

Siew Moi Khor, Microsoft Corporation Siew Moi is a programming writer in the Office programming writing team.

Ming Xu, Microsoft Corporation    is a lead program manager in the Windows High Performance Computing (HPC) team. He is responsible for the design of the Job Scheduler component in the Compute Cluster Server product. Prior to joining Microsoft Corporation, he was the Principal Architect at Platform Computing Corporation, Toronto. In 1991, Ming received his PhD in the field of Parallel Discrete Event Simulation from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom.