Craig Mundie
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"Craig James Mundie" is Senior Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft and its former Chief Research and Strategy Officer. He started in the consumer platforms division in 1992, managing the production of Windows CE for hand-held and automotive systems and early console games. In 1997, Mundie oversaw the acquisition of MSN TV/WebTV Networks. He has championed Microsoft Trustworthy Computing and digital rights management.

In 1970, Mundie began his career as an operating system developer for the Data General Nova computer at Systems Equipment Corporation. SEC was subsequently acquired by Data General Corporation, where Mundie later became director of its advanced development facility in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. In 1982, he co-founded Alliant Computer Systems, holding a variety of positions there before becoming CEO. Alliant filed for bankruptcy in 1992.

Mundie holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (1971) and a Master's degree in Information Theory and Computer Science (1972) from Georgia Tech.

Mundie attended a meeting of the Bilderberg Group in Vouliagmeni, Greece from May 14–17 in 2009. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee, which determines the invitation list for the upcoming annual Bilderberg Group/Bilderberg meetings.

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Microsoft has no beef with open source, ... We happen to like and will continue to pursue commercial software as a business model Microsoft believes in. Ultimately, the market will tell us if that choice is a good one.

In some senses, it is easy to poke fun or think you know what is going on by looking in from the outside, ... The company is clear about what it wants to do. There is no civil war at the management level.

Could be a serious problem downstream in the society here.

We are choosing to invest in health now for a variety of reasons. Advances in technology hold huge promise for changing people's lives globally -- both those who are sick and those who are well. Peter Neupert brings a mix of business leadership and expertise in the health field to guide Microsoft's work in this area.

[In Europe,] there seems to be much more ambivalence ... about whether there are elite places.

(The comments) were just unfortunate.

China has a lot of capability.

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.